Madame de Pompadour (37 page)

Meinières, M. le Président de, 189–92

Meissen factory, 89, 133

Ménars, Château de [Loir-et-Cher], 68, 129, 130, 226, 229, 230

Menus Plaisirs, state department of the, 76, 79, 85, 86

Mesdames de France: the daughters of Louis XV and his Queen

Metz [Moselle], King’s illness at, 12, 13, 20, 26, 39

Meudon, Château de [District of Paris], 64, 127

Michelet, Jules (1798–1874), 139

Mimi, one of Mme de P.’s dogs, 133

Minorca, 178, 199, 200, 206, 224

Mirabeau, Victor Riqueti, Marquis de (1715–89), 118

Mirepoix [Aude], Bishop of:
see
Boyer, Jean François

Mirepoix, Charles Pierre Gaston François de Lévis, Duc de (1674–1757), Maréchal de France 1751, 122, 171, 230

Mirepoix, Duchesse et Maréchale de, 67, 122, 184–5, 226–7

Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622–73, called), 87, 152

Moncrif, François Auguste Paradis de (1687–1770), 28, 56, 82

Monmartel, M de:
see under
Pâris brothers

Monsieur:
see
Orléans, Philippe I, Duc d’

Monsieur le Duc:
see
Bourbon et d’Enghien, Louis Henri de Bourbon-Condé, Duc de

Montcalm de Saint Véran, Louis Joseph, Marquis de (1712–59), 196

Montespan, Françoise Athénais de Mortemart, Marquise de (1641–1707), 8, 85, 110, 141, 142, 163

Nattier, Jean Marc (1685–1766), painter, 22

Netherlands, Austrian [Belgium], 175
see also
Low Countries

Nivernais, Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, Duc de (1716–98), 23, 76, 80, 81, 97–8, 105–6, 176, 208, 222–3, 224

Noailles, Adrien Maurice, Comte et Duc d’Ayen, Duc de (1678–1766), Maréchal de France 1734, 56, 80

Noailles, Charles, Vicomte de, 126

Noailles, Louis, Comte et Duc d’Ayen, Duc de (1713–93), 33, 36, 51, 53, 56, 65, 75, 80, 107, 121, 139, 140, 141, 181

Noailles, Philippe, Comte de (1715–94), Maréchal de France 1766, 46, 75, 80, 212

noblesse
:
de cour
, 4;
de robe
, 15, 39, 156, 157;
d’épée
, 15, 156

Nostradamus (1503–66), astrologer, 30

Notre Dame, Paris, 178

Oliver, Abbé d’, 52

O’Murphy, Louise (1737–1814), a mistress of Louis XV, 138

Orford, Horace Walpole, 4
^th
Earl of (1717–97), 130, 205, 214

Orléans [Loiret], 4

Orléans, Louis, Duc de Chartres et d’ (1703–52), 8, 141

Orléans, Louis Philippe, Duc de Chartres et d’ (1725–85), 30, 31, 65, 92, 94, 169; Louise Henriette de Conti, Duchesse de Chartres et d’, 31

Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, Duc d’ (1747–93), known as Philippe Egalité, 94

Orléans, Philippe I, Duc d’ (1640–1701), brother of Louis XIV, called Monsieur, 8

Orléans, Philippe II, Duc de Chartres et d’ (1674–1723), Regent of France 1715–22, 2, 3, 7, 9, 55, 56, 90, 94

Orry, Philibert, Comte de Vignory (1689–1747), Contrôleur Géneral des Finances, 61, 156

Pacte de Famille
among the Bourbons, 1761, 221

Palais de Justice, Paris, 156, 157, 160–1, 163, 180, 189

Palais-Royal, Paris, 2, 7, 211

Parc aux Cerfs, Versailles, house owned by Louis XV 1755–71, 138, 139, 168–9, 226

Paris; ball at the Hôtel de Ville, 1745; Archbishop of:
see
Beaumont, Christophe de

Pâris brothers, 16, 17, 42, 61, 63, 65, 144, 199, 200; Antoine (1668–1733); Claude called La Montagne (1670–1745); Joseph called Duverny (1684–1770), 16, 42, 144, 199, 200;

Jean, called de Montmartel (1690–1766), 16, 144

Paris
Parlement
, 156–7, 159,180, 189, 192

Parlements
, the, 156–63, 180, 189, 191, 192, 193, 196, 219, 220, 221, 228;
see also
Paris
Parlement
; Toulouse
Parlement

Parma, Italy, Duchy of, 66, 85, 94, 100, 175, 221, 222

Parma, (Marie Louise) Elisabeth of France, Duchess of (1727–59), 29, 66, 85, 94, 100, 102, 175, 211, 212, 221, 222, 225

Parma, Philip of Bourbon Duke of (1720–65), a younger son of Philip V of Spain, 29, 94, 100, 175, 233

Parrocel, Ignace Jacques (1667–1722), painter of battles, 53, 132

Passy, Paris, 85, 151, 226

pederasty at Court, 8–9

Penthièvre, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duc de (1725–93), 141, 197

Perth, Elizabeth Hamilton (née Middleton), Duchess of, 161

Peter I (1672–1725), the Great, Tsar of Russia, 9

Peter III (1728–62), Tsar of Russia, 222

Petits Appartements: Louis XV’s suite at Versailles, 5, 181

Petit Trianon, Versailles, 54, 125, 226

Philip V (1683–1746), King of Spain from 1700, 9, 29

Philip, Infante of Spain:
see
Parma, Duke of

Philippe Egalité:
see
Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, Duc d’

philosophies, les
, 21–2, 23, 44, 95, 104, 107, 119, 172, 195, 205–6, 219–20, 221

Picquigny, Duc de:
see
Chaulnes, Marie Joseph, Duc de

Pigalle, Jean Baptiste (1714–85), sculptor, 63, 127, 133, 227

Pineau, Nicolas (1684–1754), sculptor on wood, 128

Piron, Alexis (1689–1773), 52, 112–13

Pitt, William:
see
Chatham, 1
^st
Earl of

Plessis family, the du, 66

Poisson, Abel:
see
Marigny, Abel Poissons de Vandières, Marquis de

Poisson, Jeanne Antoinette:
see
Pompadour, Marquise et Duchesse de

Poisson, François, father of Mme de Pompadour, 16–17, 20, 43, 50, 57, 99, 151

Poisson, Madeleine de la Motte, mother of Mme de P., 16, 17, 18, 23, 42, 62

‘Poissonades’, scurrilous attacks on Mme de P., 100–1, 103

Poisson de Malvoisin, M., cousin of Mme de P.’s father, 230

Poisson family, 50

Polignac, Melchior de (1661–1742), Cardinal 1713, 52

Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Madame d’Etioles, Marquise et Duchesse de (29 December 1721–15 April 1764), birth, 15–16; and the fortune teller, 17; her education and accomplishments, 18; charm, 18–19; marriage to M. d’Etioles, 20; birth of Alexandrine, 20–1; plans a
salon
, 21; follows the royal hunt and is warned off, 24; meets the King at the Ball of the Clipped Yew Trees, 32; installed in Mme de Mailly’s former flat at Versailles, 36; first appearance at court, 36; sent to Etioles to study court usage, 39–40; separation from her husband, 44; letter from the King to the Marquise de Pompadour, 44; presentat ion to the Queen, 49–51; at Fontainebleau, 54–5; her liking for nicknames and freedom from court restraint, 58; efforts to please the Queen, 59–60; her apartments at Versailles, 67–8; sexual difficulties, 70–1; kindness to the Prince de Cro
ŷ
, 73–4; as an actress, 79–87; lack of understanding of her religion, 82–3; unpopular with the Parisians, 87; ‘Poissonades’ against her, 100–1; miscarriage, 104; health, 117; love of animals, 119; houses, 125; engraver, 133; books and possessions, 133–4; new relationship with King, 135–44; d’Argenson and Mme d’Estrades intrigue against her, 145–54; presented to the Queen as a duchess, 149; distress at daughter’s death, 153; lady–in–waiting to the Queen, 168; engages in diplomacy, 174–5; advised by Machault to leave Versailles, 184; contrary advice from her brother, 185; receives le Président de Meinières, 189–92; change in the way of life, 197–8; deterioration in health, 225; sells her diamonds, 230; receives gifts from Maria Theresa, 216–17; last public appearance, 228; her bequests to the King, 230; other bequests, 230; last illness, 230–1; many other references passim

Pons, Madame de, 80

Pontchartrain, Château, 105

Pope, the:
see
Benedict XIV

Portail, Marthe Antoinette, 32

Port Royal des Champs, Abbey of, 158

Pousse, Dr, specialist in smallpox, 91–2

Prague, Bohemia, 198

Préjugé à la Mode, Le
(La Chaussée, 1735), 81, 83

Prevost d’Exiles, Antoine François (1697–1763), Abbé, 51

Prie, Jeanne Agnès Berthelot de Pléneuf, Marquise de (1698–1727), 10

Prince de Noisy, Le
(play), 84

Princes of the Blood, 2, 23, 41, 54, 77, 109–10, 155, 157, 183, 192

Provence, province of, 35, 122

Prussia, 38, 51, 114, 121, 126, 142, 171, 172, 173, 174, 176, 193, 195, 202, 203, 205, 207

Pucelle d’Orléans, La
(Voltaire, 1755), 53

Quebec, 171, 195

Quesnay, François (1694–1774), 68, 71, 104, 116–18, 119, 121, 136, 147, 183, 185, 230

Racine, Jean (1639–99), 114

Ramsay, Allan (1713–84), 224

Régiment du Roi
at Fontenoy, 46, 47

Reinette: family nickname for Mme de P. and its origin, 17–18

renversement des alliances
: policy adopted by Louis XV and his ministers in 1756, 177, 188

Requétes, Maîtres de
, 160;
Cour de
220

Reservoirs, Hôtel des, Versailles, 69, 110, 126, 134, 144, 231

Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Duc de (1585–1642), Cardinal 1622, 38, 66

Richelieu, Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de (1696–1788), Maréchal de France, 1748, friend of Mme de Châteauroux, 13, 14, 25, 35, 46, 47, 48; hostility to Mme de P., 56, 61, 66, 102, 104; duel with Prince de Lixin, 122, 153; takes Port Mahon, Minorca, 178, 199; flattered by Frederick the Great, 200, 202; buys Hôtel d’Antin, 204–5

Richelieu, Mlle de:
see
Egmont, Comtesse d’

Rodogune
, 133

Rohan, Vicomte, 84

Rohan family, 41, 64, 65

Rohan-Soubise, Armand Gaston Maximilien de (1674–1749), Bishop of Strasbourg 1704, Cardinal 1712, 11

Romains, Mlle:
see
Cavanac, Marquise de

Romanet, Charlotte Rosalie:
see
Choiseul, Charlotte Rosalie Romanet, Comtesse

Rome, 97, 98, 106, 150, 162, 170, 188, 210, 211, 228

Rosbach, Battle of, 1757, 139, 202, 205, 209

Rossignol, Madame, 214

Roucoux, French victory of, 1747, 170

Rouillé, Antoine Louis:
see
Jouy, Comte de

Roure, Marie de Gontaut, Comtesse du (d. 1770), 65, 80, 107, 189

Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1717–78), 195, 232

Royal Dauphin
(ship), 171

Russia, 170, 171, 180, 195, 200, 206, 225

sacraments refused to suspected Jansenists

Sacy, Père de, 166

St Cast, Battle of, 1758, 209

St Cloud [District of Paris], 105, 113, 123, 131, 132, 140

St Cyr School [District of Paris], 164

St Denis [District of Paris], 63, 183, 198

Saint Espirit, Croix du (est. 1575), 73, 84, 93, 96–7, 163

St Florentin, Comte de:
see
Vrilliere, Duc de la

St Germain, Comte de (c. 1707–c. 1784), adventurer, 203

St Germain, Comtesse de, 51

Saint-German-en-Laye [District of Paris], 36

St Hubert, Château de [District of Paris], 54

St Louis, convent of, 164–5

Saint Louis, order of, 110

St Médard, Church of, 161–2

Saint Michel, Order of, 131

St Ouen, Château de [District of Paris], 129

St Philip, Fort, Mahon, Minorca, 178

Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de (1675–1755), 27, 164

Salle, M. de la, 123, 144

Sanderhausen, Battle of, 1758, 209–10

Sardinia, 38, 171

Savonnerie factory, 157

Saxe, (Hermann), Maurice, Comte de (1696–1750), Maréchal de France 1744, Maréchal Général 1746; 16, 39, 46, 47, 65, 75, 77–8, 80, 88, 170, 198, 199, 202, 207

Saxe, Marie Josèphe de:
see
Marie Josèphe de Saxe

Saxony, 38, 88, 89, 132, 179, 188, 202

Sceaux [District of Paris], 193, 205

Séguier, Pierre (1588–1672) Chancelier de France, 192

Sémiramis
(Voltaire, 1748), 113; (Crébillon, 1717), 113

Sénart, Forest of [District of Paris], 20, 24

Senegal, 224

Seven Years’ War, The, 1756–63, 68, 76, 179, 195–212, 221, 225

Sèvres [District of Paris], 32, 33, 127, 132–3, 157, 216

Sèvres, Pont de, Paris, 15, 228

Sicilies, the two, 171, 221

Silhouette, Etienne de (1709–67), 156

silver sent by the King and Mme de P. to be melted down, 216

smallpox, Dauphin suffers from, 91–2, 94–5

Soissons [Aisne], 211; Bishop of, 13

Sophie of France (1734–82), 5
^th
daughter of Louis XV, 95, 211

Soubise, Charles de Rohan, Prince de (1715–87), Maréchal de France 1758, 185, 198, 199, 202–3, 206, 209–10, 230, 231

Soufflot, Jacques Germain (1714–80), architect, 97

Souvré, Francois Louis, Marquis de (1704–67), 110, 122

Spain, 1, 2, 9, 21, 29, 31, 32, 38, 73, 94, 170, 171, 197, 208, 221, 222

Stainville, Comte de:
see
Choiseul, Duc de

Stanislas I (Stanislas Leczinski, 1677–1766), King of Poland 1705–09, 10, 26–7, 49, 52, 54, 80, 89, 90, 112, 122, 227

Stanislas, Place, Nancy, 227

Starhemberg, Georg Adam, Count, Austrian Ambassador at Versailles, 172–5, 216, 217

Strasbourg [Bas Rhin], 198, 199

Sweden, 17, 130, 171, 180, 222

Swiss Guard, the 91, 93, 181, 215

Tableau Economique, Le
(Quesnay, 1758), 118

Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe (1828–93), 108

Tancrède
(Voltaire, 1760), 84, 218

Tartuffe
(Molière, 1664), 80

Temple de la Glorie, Le
(Voltaire), 52

Tencin, Pierre Guérin de (1680–1749), Cardinal 1739, 163

Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de (1682–1749), 22

Terence: edn. printed by Horace Walpole in Marigny’s library, 130

Tessé, Marquis de, 31, 151

Théâtre des Petits Cabinets, 80, 81, 85, 86–7

Tocqué, Louis (1696–1772), painter, 132

Toulouse, Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de (1678–1737), 141, 166

Toulouse, Marie-Victoire Sophie de Noailles, Marquise de Gondrin, Comtesse de, 141

Toulouse [Haute-Garonne], 218–19

Toulouse
Parlement
, 220

Tournehem, Charles François Le Normant de (d. 1751), 17, 18, 20, 23, 35, 37, 43, 44, 57, 62, 63, 80, 97, 99, 131, 142