When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one
expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the
bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold
for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could
not travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones.
History has loved her little better.Nancy Mitford's delightfully
candid biography re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century
Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. We learn that
the Queen was a "bore," the Dauphin a "prig," and see France
increasingly overcome with class conflict. With a fiction writer's
felicity, Mitford restores the royal mistress and celebrates her as
a survivor, unsurpassed in "the art of living," who reigned as the
most powerful woman in France for nearly twenty years.
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