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...mistress of Louis XV of France for nearly 20 enduring years, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson d'Etioles, Marquise de Pompadour, boasted no Mercedes-Benz or chinchilla coats, but managed to spend before her death at 42 an estimated 36 million francs on gowns, jewels, furniture, art work and seven estates, including the Palais de 1'Elysee in Paris, today the home of the Presidents of France...
...Whereas in humanities, for instance, the ideas of Plato are of considerable relevance today even though they are not included in the work of modern theorists, this is not the case in the natural sciences. Modern quantum theory contains a great deal of the older work of Newton, Laplace, Poisson, Hamilton, Jacobi, and Bohr. Indeed, a present concept of the physical truth is but a modification, reforming, and improvement of older ideas...
Wrinkles in the Sky. In Le Lorgneur Watteau made use of his favorite technique of composition: he riffled through his countless drawings for characters to fit the scene. In this painting, the guitar player is his actor-friend Philippe Poisson. Ironically Watteau, who took great pains with his drawings, usually hurried his painting...
...Beautiful Bluestocking. Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, daughter of a well-to-do businessman and created Marquise de Pompadour by her royal lover, arrived in the "rats' nests" in 1745, stayed at the court 20 years until her death at 42. Her figure seemed to be made wholly of nymphish curves: her skin was "snow-white," her eyes "the brightest, wittiest and most sparkling." She could act dance and sing, play the clavichord "to perfection," paint, draw, engrave precious stones, and spout about gardening, botany and natural history-"a more accomplished woman," says Author Mitford, "has seldom lived." The only interesting...
...last week, Curator Poisson's workmen had carefully uncovered 150 ft. of yellow stone facade, including the entire center section and part of the left wing. With 3,000,000 francs voted by the Seine provincial council, Poisson was at work numbering each stone before dismantling the facade and rebuilding it as a historic monument in the park at Sceaux. Still missing: Louis' table volante. Reported Curator Poisson sadly: "I even crept down into the sewers on all fours, but we found nothing...