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Dear reader, - I am not an historian, bring ing you unpublished documents on the Marquise de Pompadour. I am a portraitist fondly interested in my model, who, following illustrious predecessors, has tried to depict for you, after a woman's manner, the figure of a woman. In this pastel sketch what is to live again for you is the Parisian woman of the middle-class, the mistress and friend of the Kin g - beheld, not in her political capacity, but in her privacy as woman loving and beloved a Pompadour in something like undress, an artist-nature in a pretty fragile body - she who died as she had lived, in a Court gown, with a.
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Dear reader, - I am not an historian, bring ing you unpublished documents on the Marquise de Pompadour. I am a portraitist fondly interested in my model, who, following illustrious predecessors, has tried to depict for you, after a woman's manner, the figure of a woman. In this pastel sketch what is to live again for you is the Parisian woman of the middle-class, the mistress and friend of the Kin g - beheld, not in her political capacity, but in her privacy as woman loving and beloved a Pompadour in something like undress, an artist-nature in a pretty fragile body - she who died as she had lived, in a Court gown, with a.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- Publication date2017
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- ISBN 13 9781332613922
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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