Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry Steele Commager, Jr. '54 won $100 as the Louis Curtis Prize for excellence in Latin.
Normally closefisted, Louis showered money on her innumerable "projects"-the porcelain factory of Sèvres, paintings, sculptures, villas, rewards and pensions for artists and builders-a grand total, it is said, of 36 million livres. "He doesn't mind signing for a million," she told her maid, "but...
The King woke every morning in a private bedroom and proceeded to dress after lighting his own fire ("so as not to wake the servants"), and work in his private study. But at the appointed hour, he hastily undressed again, scurried into his gorgeous State Bedroom, and allowed himself to...
Firmly, calculating, she worked her way into the King's arms by making her salon a favorite with the most brilliant of France's intellectuals-Philosophers Montesquieu, Helvétius, the great Voltaire himself. The decisive meeting of the King and the beautiful bluestocking occurred at the splendid...
Unlike other historians, Author Mitford believes that "sincère et tendre Pompadour" (Voltaire's description) did all she did for love of the King, not because she was ambitious. Her weakness-a terrifying one for a royal mistress-was that she was "constitutionally incapable of passion." "She tried...