Madame de Pompadour

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour (29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764, ) was a member of the French court and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to her death.

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    Après nous le déluge.
    [”After us, the flood.”]
    Madame De Pompadour (1721–1764)

    Madame d’Estampes and Madame de Valentinois make me fear that I should be only honoured by my husband as a queen and not loved by him as a woman.
    Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    There was also a Nonne, a prioresse,
    That of hir smylyng was ful symple and coy;
    Hire gretteste ooth was but by Seint Loy.
    And she was cleped madame Eglentyne.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    Après nous le déluge.
    [”After us, the flood.”]
    —Madame De Pompadour (1721–1764)