Kdo je hodil z Madame de Pompadour?

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (, French: [pɔ̃paduʁ] ; 29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764), commonly known as Madame de Pompadour, was a member of the French court. She was the official chief mistress of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1751, and remained influential as court favourite until her death.

Pompadour took charge of the king's schedule and was a valued aide and advisor, despite her frail health and many political enemies. She secured titles of nobility for herself and her relatives, and built a network of clients and supporters. She was particularly careful not to alienate the popular Queen, Marie Leszczyńska. On 8 February 1756, the Marquise de Pompadour was named as the thirteenth lady-in-waiting to the queen, a position considered the most prestigious at the court, which accorded her with honors.

Pompadour was a major patron of architecture and decorative arts, especially porcelain. She was a patron of the philosophes of the Enlightenment, including Voltaire.

Hostile critics at the time generally tarred her as a malevolent political influence, but historians are more favorable, emphasizing her successes as a patron of the arts and a champion of French pride. Modern historians suggest that the critics of Pompadour were driven by fears over the overturning of the existing hierarchies that Pompadour's power and influence represented, as a woman who was not born into the aristocracy.

Ludvik XV., francoski kralj, * 15. februar 1710, Versailles, Francija, † 10. maj 1774, Versailles.

Bil je kralj Francije in Navarre od 1. septembra 1715 do svoje smrti 10. maja 1774.

Na prestol se je povzpel v starosti petih let, najprej je vladal s pomočjo reganta Filipa II. vojvodo Orleanskega, njegovega starega strica. Formalno-osebni nadzor nad francosko vlado je prevzal na svoj trinajsti rojstni dan, 15. februarja 1723.

Nepričakovano je preživel smrt večine kraljeve družine v letih 1711−15, videl je smrt Ludvika XIV. (1715) in naslednjih treh članov nasledstvene linije. Ludvik XV. je užival ugled na začetku vladanja in si prislužil vzdevek »Le Bien-Aime« (»ljubljeni«). V času njegove moralne odsotnosti, splošne nezmožnosti za učinkovite reforme za Francijo in monarhijo in napake svoje zunanje politike. Zaradi tega je izgubil priljubljenost in je umrl kot najbolj nepriljubljen francoski kralj.