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Middle class mademoiselle with big ideas; Madame de Pompadour, Sex, Culture and Power by Margaret Crosland (Sutton, pounds 19.99). Reviewed by.(Books)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20010210
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Byline: Richard Edmonds

It was Thomas Carlyle who said of Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV, that she was a 'high rouged unfortunate female of whom it is not proper to speak without necessity'.

But that was the 19th century passing its male dominated social verdict on a beautiful and immensely talented woman. She was a kind of Eva Peron of her day (the luxury, the couture, the carriages) and did much to revive the fortunes of the porcelain, silver and silk weaving industries in France during the economic dog days of the 18th ...

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