Madame de Pompadour’s Theatre

‘If ever a house radiated cheerfulness, that house is Versailles.’ Nancy Mitford on the royal palace in the middle years of Louis XV.

Nancy Mitford | Published in History Today Volume 3 Issue 8 August 1953

Madame de Pompadour, as Diana the Huntress by Jean-Marc Nattier, 1746. Palace of Versailles.
Madame de Pompadour, as Diana the Huntress by Jean-Marc Nattier, 1746. Palace of Versailles.

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