Pompadour's

Both exhibits whisk the viewer into the colorful world of Pompadour's imagination.

Artful Adultery 2007

Madame de Pompadour gave to Crébillon a preference which Voltaire resented with more agitation than any preference of Madame Pompadour's ought to have stirred in the breast of a strong man.

Voltaire 2007

Boucher's flamboyant paintings crowded with decoration, her Caffieri furniture laden with opulent swirls, Pompadour's 19-year shopping spree -- these all feel like increasingly desperate attempts to fill a vacuum.

Artful Adultery 2007

His pride revolted at the thought that he who had been admired and courted by the highest and the noblest even at the Pompadour's own magnificent fêtes and receptions should be entrapped by a mere matchmaker at an out-of-the-way little place like this.

The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France Alfred H. Engelbach

True, Isidore's hair was always dressed to perfection; his bow -- that is to say, when he was off duty -- might have gained a smile of approval at the king's levée or at one of the Pompadour's receptions; his hands would scarce have disgraced a lady; and the perfumes and cosmetics he used were as choice as they were multifarious.

The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France Alfred H. Engelbach

Pompadour's carriage, in which were, I think, Madame de Chateau-Renaud, and Madame de Mirepoix.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

This circumstance was spoken of one evening at supper, at Madame de Pompadour's, and not one of the guests seemed at all tempted to imitate the Chevalier.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Pompadour's room one day, in a great passion, and said, "Would you believe that there is a man in my Court insolent enough to dare to raise his eyes to one of my daughters?"

Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Complete Mme. Du Hausset

There was a large sofa in a little room adjoining Madame de Pompadour's, upon which I often reposed.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Pompadour's room one day, in a great passion, and said, "Would you believe that there is a man in my Court insolent enough to dare to raise his eyes to one of my daughters?"

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various