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Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour |
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Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764)) Portrait of Marquise de Pompadour by François Boucher. Madame de Pompadour was very influential in the patronage of literature and the arts during her 20 years of power at the court. Mistress of Louis XV of France from 1744, born in Paris. She largely dictated the government's ill-fated policy of reversing France's anti-Austrian policy for an anti-Prussian one. She acted as the patron of the Enlightenment philosophers Voltaire and Diderot. |
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