Download or read book The Hunt after Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour written by Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recast the import of Mme de Pompadour as a political and artistic patron at the cour of Versailles in mid eighteenth century France. Her visual record is lush and archival and printed sources demonstrate the degree to which she dazzled and enlightened culture, leaver her considerable imprint on pre-revolutionary France.