Madame de Pompadour
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Sep 27, 2026
MartyNARRATOR
The gilt and scrolls of the yacht decorator, the mirrors, and all the rest of his abominations were not to be found here.
MartyNARRATOR
Panels by Chardin painted for Madame de Pompadour occupied the walls.
MartyNARRATOR
The main lamp, a flying dragon by Benvenuto Cellini, clutching in its claws a globe of fire, had for satellites four torchbearers of bronze by Klaus.
MartyNARRATOR
A library, writing and smoking room combined, opened from the main saloon.
Kenneth HiteHOST
And he runs out of money doing that.
Kenneth HiteHOST
In 1749, he notices that Madame de Pompadour is worried about poison and attacks on herself by her enemies at court.
Kenneth HiteHOST
She's the mistress of the king.
Kenneth HiteHOST
And so he thinks, I'll send her a booby trap box.
Kenneth HiteHOST
or Vincennes, on the east edge of Paris, and he escapes by waiting until the guards aren't looking and walking out the door.
Kenneth HiteHOST
He has basically been trading on his sort of commission in the army to be treated as a gentleman, and so obviously a gentleman wouldn't just walk out of prison, but he did.
Kenneth HiteHOST
So he writes a letter to Louis XV asking for clemency, explaining that he would stop the real plot against Madame de Pompadour.
Kenneth HiteHOST
And also he had a number of good ideas about how to better run the kingdom.
Simon WhistlerHOST
In 1755, the Chevalier supposedly used his connections to get invited to a ball at Versailles.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Arriving dressed as a woman, he accompanied the King's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, into a private room before seducing her.
Simon WhistlerHOST
That done, he returned to the party, where Louis XV, in turn, promptly tried to seduce him.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Good story, as this is maybe Buncombe.
David WalesNARRATOR
Wolfgang stood next to the queen, who fed him dainties and translated for the king, Louis XV, what the boy said to her in German.
David WalesNARRATOR
The great Madame Pompadour was on hand and the elder Mozart noted that she must once have been a great beauty, for all her present stoutness.
David WalesNARRATOR
Later, when Wolfgang offered to give her a kiss, she drew back, whereupon the boy indignantly asked, Who does she think she is, anyhow? Our empress herself did not refuse to kiss me.
David WalesNARRATOR
Leopold was careful to note the countless features of the Parisian scene.
T. WellingtonNARRATOR
And Wolfe—well, he was Wolfe.
T. WellingtonNARRATOR
one day he was presented to king louis from whom seven years later he was to rest quebec they were all very gracious as far as courtesies bows and smiles go for the bourbons seldom speak to anybody Then he was presented to the clever Marquise de Pompadour, whom he found having her hair done up in the way which is still known by her name to every woman in the world.
T. WellingtonNARRATOR
It was the regular custom of that time for great ladies to receive their friends while barbers were at work on their hair.
T. WellingtonNARRATOR
She is extremely handsome, and by her conversation with the Ambassador I judge she must have a great deal of wit and understanding.
Katie BaxterHOST
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Katie BaxterHOST
Madame Pompadour episode.
Katie BaxterHOST
[laughs]
Zan MoonHOST
[laughs]
PurrquoiseVOICE_ACTOR
I was too precious.
PurrquoiseVOICE_ACTOR
My new owner was the Marquise de Pompadour, sometimes called Madame de Pompadour, and she lived in a grand home, now called the Élysée Palace.
PurrquoiseVOICE_ACTOR
Madame was a big patron of the arts.
PurrquoiseVOICE_ACTOR
She even advocated for a porcelain manufacturing to become a royal enterprise.
PurrquoiseVOICE_ACTOR
You could say that I was an inspiration to her.
PurrquoiseVOICE_ACTOR
I won't correct you.
PurrquoiseVOICE_ACTOR
Madame de Pompadour was also a big fan of cats.
PurrquoiseVOICE_ACTOR
I was one of many feline art pieces that decorated her rooms.
Tom NeenanGUEST
he's never told otherwise, is he? No, no.
Tom NeenanGUEST
It's one of the many mysteries like the SS Madame de Pompadour, where he just has to, like, we know, but he doesn't.
Tom NeenanGUEST
He's been dying out
Joe FordHOST
on it for years.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
This section took in the whole east side of the Faubourg Saint-Denis, whereas the present No. 63 is on the west side.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
After Georget, spelled G-E-O-R-G-E-I-T, or Georget, spelled G-E-O-R-G-E-T, had been arrested, Paine was left alone in a large mansion, said by Rickman to have been once the hotel of Madame de Pompadour, and it would appear by his account that it was after the execution, October 31, 1793, of his friends the Girondins and political comrades that he felt his end at hand and set about his last literary bequest to the world, The Age of Reason, in the state in which it has since appeared, as he is careful to say.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
There was every probability during the months in which he wrote, November and December 1793, that he would be executed.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
His religious testament was prepared with the blade of the guillotine suspended over him, a fact which did not deter pious mythologists from portraying his deathbed remorse for having written the book.
Matt MarkgrafNARRATOR
In the room there were rich woods and tapestried walls, and at the back was a four-poster mahogany bed with heavy satin hangings, brocaded with fleur-de-lis.
Matt MarkgrafNARRATOR
The Pompadour would have been entirely happy there.
Matt MarkgrafNARRATOR
But the American colonel had done things to it, things that would have popped the eyes out of the Pompadour's head.
Matt MarkgrafNARRATOR
He pinned up the four-poster hangings with a safety-pin, that being the only way he could convey to his amiable little French servant-girl that he didn't want that bed turned down for him of nights.
Matt MarkgrafNARRATOR
And he had taken all the satin hangings down from the windows.
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