sansaregina:HISTORY MEME | ten women: jeanne antoinette poisson, marquise de pompadour“The Seven Yea
sansaregina:HISTORY MEME | ten women: jeanne antoinette poisson, marquise de pompadour“The Seven Years’ War, with its defeats and humiliations, had been a torment to the Marquise. She had put a brave face on it, the courtiers never saw her gloomy, nor did the King. She laughed and joked as she always had and they often thought she minded nothing. But her maid tells a different story. She could not sleep and she cried when she was alone. She worried far more than the King. His nerves were more solid than hers; the hunting took his mind off political matters for hours every day and made him sleep at night. Madame de Pompadour sat indoors, wrote letters and brooded; it was very bad for her. She had longed so much for France and her King to come out of the war covered with glory, and all had ended in ruin and shame. ‘If I die,’ she said, ‘it will be of grief.’” – Nancy Mitford, Madame de Pompadour // Hélène de Fougerolles as Madame de Pompadour -- source link
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