La Marquise de Pompadour, favorite de Louis XV, s'impose à Versailles

[dudanova]

I adore Mme Pompadour!!! I absolutly ADMIRE HER!!! She was great woman with caracter and style and totaly modern visions for 18 century!! big intelligence and "classe". She was unique person in history!

[AirallialeFay]

@MaisonLafitte Madame de stael she is only noticed when you look closer at the period in which she lived. The queens and the beautiful maitresses en titre are more noticed, I think.

[AirallialeFay]

@MaisonLafitte has been eclipsed by all the other horrors of the time as for mms

[AirallialeFay]

@MaisonLafitte probably but I don't think so for Madame du Barry . She isn't seen as a good figure. In France she was more like the little productive that got to the Kings bed, and her impact in the revolution had

[AirallialeFay]

@MaisonLafitte

[MaisonLafitte]

J'adore Mme de Pompadour! Elle est vraiment reine de rococo!

[juanbosco31]

dedico esto a Julian del Casal....Funerales de una Cortesana

[5687goddess]

I am sorry is it just me or the lady in 0:15 up to 0:36 sounded as if she is choking

[AirallialeFay]

@5687goddess

it's just you. or it might be that she's got a little french oldish accent.

Mais bon on ne sait pas

[Liz86000]

J'adore ces emissions...

[mow78]

i adore madame de pompadour and i'm so sorry i dont't understand french i want to know what they are commenting about my favourte marquise is there anyone out there kind enough to translate this for me i'l be forever grateful even if it's not perfect so anyone??please!!

[AirallialeFay]

@mow78

Ok, here it goes

"Even though there was a total absence of sex in her relationship with the king, Madame de Pompadour remains his muse, his politic adviser. People say that she is a real priminister . An unknown (unheard of) political role for a royal mistress.

(the lady with the gol necklace starts talking): Immediately she wanted to impose to the courtiers to come to court her as they would do to the queen. Louis the 15 th was not very approchable .... continue in the next reply

[AirallialeFay]

@mow78 to continue...so everything went by his mistress. She also knows like noneother before her how to give a style to her "reign". The castle of " Champs sur marnes" that she occupied some time is a witness. In architecture, in furniture, in all the artistic domains we still speak of " Pompadour style" a fashion that has not finished pleasing . The "pompadour " stays the sure value of antique dealers . Here we have a piece of next ...reply...

(Antique man starts talking) : Here we have a

[AirallialeFay]

@mow78 ....to continue... furniture wich was created in 1750, well around that period, in the middle of the Madame de Pompadour- Louis XV period. This is what we call a jewellery chest, you open it like this (opens it) here you have a little mirror, a mirror of the time and here you have a pigeon hole (like a drawer but with no top), with its blue silk cover, typical of the time in wich we would put necklaces and bracelets. Here you havce ( pulls out a drawer) a little drawer with

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[AirallialeFay]

@mow78 a little tablet to write on (shows gree thing) underneath we could put letters and here you have the ink pot (little silver thing). You could imagine that Madame de Pompadour would receive a necklace from a friend, she'd put it on in front of the mirror, put it back, then would write: dear friend, i thank you for the lovely present you have given me.

(back to original voice) : for objects like these the Marquise of Pompadour could spend millions of pounds. next reply...

[AirallialeFay]

@mow78

This jewellery chest is sold about 300 000 euros.

(man starts talking) Madame de Pompadour would spend a lot of money but you have to imagine it's like the queen of england today. The queen of England spends a lot of money but she represents England. But Madame de Pompadour Louis XV, Madame du Barry, people like that would represent France. So when she would receive ambassados, ministers or princes she could not receive them on straw chairs, you had to have a certain luxury. next reply

[AirallialeFay]

@mow78 When we do the to^tal of what she has spent we see that she spent 30 million pounds during her life, her royal favor, wich was for about 20 years. It's gigantic and we can't do the exact sum. She had about 14 estates: 8 castles, 3 hermitages, 8 "hotels particuliers". But she sells the 4 first castles to be able to finance the other 4.

back to original voice. The marquise has a few personnal belongings but it is with the King's money that finances things. The king also... next reply

[AirallialeFay]

@mow78 ...also gives her the hotel D' Evreux de Pompadour bought in 1753 better known under the name of Palais de L'élisé.

(lady talks): We are in the appartements of madame de pompadour. This is what's left of the primitif decoration of the marquise (3:14), here we can see a tapissery wich had been put following the orders of the Marquise here and the "cartouches"(cartriges) above the doors were painted by Bouché and by Vanleau. Arts collectionner, the Marquise is also ... next reply...

[AirallialeFay]

@mow78 ... an artist with her sharp eye she could reproduce any engraving . Thanks to this artistic sensibility she managed to imprint her mark in something else grand for the time: Hard Porcelaine. Only the Saxons had the secret but all of the European courts were dreaming of it. But the marquise isn't defeated wshe creates the Manufacture of Serves. She was a remarquable buisness woman and she had the sense of buisness because she found the chemists, the workers, and next reply

[AirallialeFay]

@mow78 and she proceeds to the sale and leads society until it feels national. This woman knew how to defend her interests bu also how to defend the interests of the kingdom. She assures the explotion of cultural and economic beauty in France and in the whole of Europe.

(man talks) It is at that time that we are going to create 2 products, that we would today call marketing products, the flowers, the roses and the painted flowers, it's the first manufacture that creates those types next...

[AirallialeFay]

@mow78 ... of objects wich are celebrated in commercial buisness and in all of the European courts. The singular relation in between Madame de pompadour and louis XV will last 20 years. 20 years of power for the ambitious Marquise. The only thing left for her beautiful ascention would be to be married by the king like Madame de Maintenon had wed Louis XIV. But she didn't live long enough to see the Queen die.

I hope you like it. I'm sorry for the spelling mistakes. I'm still learning at school.

[mow78]

@AirallialeFay thank you soo much that was great all the best with your english study you're doing great anyhow!!

[AirallialeFay]

@mow78 thanks : )

[mow78]

@AirallialeFay i presume you are from france so i would also like to ask do you know how the french people feel about the marquise de pompadour in france today do they like her and think that she has contributed greatly to french culture and how strong is her influence today or do they think she was a drain on the french economy in her lifetime,is she generally viewed in positive or negative light today and if so how popular and well know is she today?thank you so much again all the best!

[AirallialeFay]

@mow78 Oh, they mostly love her and think she was brilliant, not like the people living at the time of the french revolution.I don't think that they all know that she played a great part in french culture. Some of them do. But they just think that the economy wasn't her fault it was her lover's predecessor Louis the XIV.

In the ladies of France she would be like 5

1. Marie Antoinette

2.Catherine de Medicis

3. Madame de Pompadour

4. Madame de Maintenon

5.Alienor d'aquitaine

.... and so on

[mow78]

@AirallialeFay thank you so much again it's good to know that madame de Pompadour is fondly remembered by the french(mostly).I just love her story because i think that she genuinely loved the king and the king loved her in his way.I understand from what i ve read that her biggest wish was to have a child with the king but she had miscarriages and that didn't happen.I think hers was a very sad life and she would ve been happier if the king was just a private person and she his wife,sad!

[AirallialeFay]

@mow78

Yep, then they would have been able to stay together, it's sad that she died so young.

[MaisonLafitte]

@AirallialeFay You forget about: :P

6. Madame de Rambouillet

7. Anges Sorel

8. Diane de Poitiers

9. Madame de Stael

10. Madame du Barry

Mme du Barry was not so nasty and stupid person like it was show in Copolla "Marie Antoinette". She really support artist, specially Fragonard but also neoclassical style in furnishing and architecture. Also she wanna help Marie Antoinette to escape from prison, she was a contact between royal family and emigration in England.

[TiteOurse]

en fait , ils n'ont pas vraiment tort, le roi a vite préféré d'autres filles et leur relation a a ce moment pris une autre tournure et le sexe n'etait plus une priorité entre eux meme si c'est exagéré de dire qu'il ne couchaient plus ensemble

[tmpfan2]

3:52 Pink Pompadour.

[0371998]

ELle ne couchait pas avec le ROI !! ppfffff! HAha!! Ce discours sert qu'a bien paraitre!

Tout Leur argents me sancdalise pas un poil ! Mais ce mensonge sexuel me scandalise!

[c4exclusive]

thank you very much!!!