Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France
by Algrant, Christine Pevitt
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0802117260
- ISBN 13
- 9780802117267
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 2002. xii, 338 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with a creased front flap. "This 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." "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." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 123402
- Title
- Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France
- Author
- Algrant, Christine Pevitt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0802117260
- ISBN 13
- 9780802117267
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Patronage / Individual Collectors; European / French; European / 5. Baroque & Rococo;
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