This novel presents the story of Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour—an extraordinary woman, the favorite of King Louis XV, who for twenty years had enormous influence on France’s political and social life.
Duke Henri de Castries is a French writer and historian, practically unknown to domestic readers. Besides this novel, only one of his books was published in Russian: “Islam and Christianity in the Age of the Conquest and Rule of the Arabs.”