madame pompadour mistress france de algrant christine (82 résultats)

Etat : Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Etat : Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Etat : Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A tan to the page edges/pages.

Very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. First Printing hardbound.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Faint shadowing to front board, else fine in near fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Compelling new biography of the legendary mistress of King Lois XV of France, offering a dramatic insight into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful, and feared women to grace the world's stage. Hardback illustrated with 8 pages of plates. Signed by Algrant to top of the first titled front endpaper page. Bottom dust jacket edges slightly creased otherwise fine condition in very good dust jacket. 338 pages.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. Reprinted. xii+339pp. Pictorial colour illustrated covers and spine, b/w portrait of author on ffep., col. plts. & text ills., notes, bibliog., index. Born Jeanne- Antoinette Poisson, Madame de Pompadour was mistress of King Louis XV during the turbulent decades of the eighteenth century leading up to the French Revolution. Christine Pevitt Algrant paints a brilliant, compelling portrait of a shrewd and complex woman who came to wield extraordinary power. Size: Octavo. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Hough, Laura Hammond (book design); Woods, Charles Rue (jacket design); Salo, Marcia (jacket design); Foucher, Francois (jacket art); Algrant, Roland (author photograph) (illustrateur). 1st Edition. As new condition black boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Christine Pevitt Algrant; Author Dedication; List of Illustrations; Preface; Afterword; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Source Notes; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with a section of color illustrated plates. "Historical drama related with great flair and knowing affection for the colorful characters' all-too-human foibles." -- Kirkus Reviews. "This compelling new biography of the legendary mistress of King Louis XV of France offers a dramatic insight into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful, and feared women to grace the world's stage. The critically acclaimed author of Philippe, duc d'Orleanes, Christine Pevitt Algrant presents a new biography of the most famous of Louis XV's mistresses. From her modest beginnings in early eighteenth-century Paris, to her reign as the undisputed mistress of Versailles, Madame de Pompadour traces the life of a truly remarkable, self-made woman whose astonishing rise confounded the most experienced and the most sophisticated of her contemporaries. Algrant weaves her richly textured manuscript with tremendous authority, setting the dramatic events that marked Madame de Pompadour's life against the defining moments of the times. Groomed from an early age to assume the role of a rich man's mistress, Jeanne-Antoinett Poisson underwent a number of transformations -- from a halfhearted marriage to a Parisian tax collector to a lifelong involvement with the financial elite of France -- before she captivated the king himself and was officially recognized as his maitress declaree. Although accustomed to the king's extramarital relationships, the court was shocked at the sudden ascension of the low-born Mademoiselle Poisson. The newcomer, howeveer, wasted no time, quickly establishing herself as the king's sole confidante and, ultimately, his indispensable partner in affairs of state. Algrant takes the reader into the farthest and most exclusive chambers at Versailles, allowing us to glimpse the resourcefulness and the determination with which the king's favorite deftly manipulated the factions at the court. She also illuminates Madame de Pompadour's influence across the artistic and political spectrum of the day, including her relationships with the leaders of the French Enlightenment: Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot. Evocative and insightful, Madame de Pompadour is a seductive portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential women of the age." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 9.0 X 6.3 X 1.2 inches; 336 pages.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Near Fine dust jacket. Owner bookplate on 2nd FEP.