In 1745 Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson Le Normant d’Etioles, the married daughter of a minor and rather shady bureaucrat, was officially appointed maîtresse en titre – mistress to Louis XV. She was twenty-four years old. Installed at the court of Versailles, she also acquired a new title –Madame la Marqu...
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