The Two Mistresses
June, 1983
from La vie du Roi Louis XV, by Henri Mercat, 1867At the Age of 32, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, known to history as Madame de Pompadour, was tiring of her duties. She had been mistress to King Louis XV for eight years. Those had been eight years of enormous power, it was true, but they had also been eight years of demanding royal lust. Now Madame de Pompadour suffered from headaches and backaches. She needed a solution to her problem.She turned to her friend François Boucher, the court painter an...
