{"product_id":"9781590175309","title":"Madame de Pompadour","description":"When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV,  no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the  bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for  the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not  travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones. History has  loved her little better. Nancy Mitford’s delightfully candid biography  re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of  pleasure and treachery. We learn that the Queen was a “bore,” the  Dauphin a “prig,” and see France increasingly overcome with class  conflict. With a fiction writer’s felicity, Mitford restores the royal  mistress and celebrates her as a survivor, unsurpassed in “the art of  living,” who reigned as the most powerful woman in France for nearly  twenty years.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137970094320,"sku":"9781590175309","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590175309_p0.jpg?v=1763804383","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590175309","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}