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...POMPADOUR by Jacques Levron. 279 pages. St Martin...
Frenchman named Jacques Levron with a revised portrait of Mme. de Pompadour, probably the richest and most celebrated courtesan of all time, as a woman harassed almost beyond human endurance by illness and intrigue. To hear Levron tell it, the poor girl might just as well have been married...
Grasshopper King. Life with Louis was just one damned thing after another. As the first member of the middle class ever to become an official mis tress to a French King, Pompadour was target for the gibes of high-born courtiers from the day she was installed in the palace in 1745 until the day she died there-after dutifully getting the King's permission to do so-in 1764. At first her intellectual mentor, Voltaire, had to correct her in a whisper at state dinners because her middle-class turn of phrase was so foreign to the phony...
Where women were concerned, Louis combined a grasshopper's attention span with the appetite of a tiger. Pompadour, who suffered from tuberculosis, desperately sought to divert him to less athletic pursuits, like amateur theatricals, at which she was gifted, and small dinner parties where the king could "pour his own coffee" and see a few friends. It was a great relief when, as her adviser, the Abbe de Bernis, related with exquisite courtliness, the King's "friendship took the place of gallantry." But then Pompadour had to be doubly on guard against being driven from favor by more...
...film also introduces to our shores Miss Barbara Windsor, who rose to stardom in Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be. Playing the unfaithful wife, she is a stunning sexpot (measurements 38-22-35) with a remarkable platinum poodle-pompadour (not a wig either), Britain's talented answer to the dumb-blonde Judy Holliday of Born Yesterday. (Incidentally, Miss Windsor will appear as a guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight show on television tomorrow night...