Everything You Know About Madame de Pompadour is Wrong

The pompadour hairstyle is named after Madame de Pompadour, and her own portraits show she never wore it. The pink called rose Pompadour was never given that name by the Sevres factory that made it. She did not invent the rococo either. What Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson actually did was turn herself, the daughter of an army provisioner, into the official arbiter of French taste at Versailles, hold the position for nineteen years, and then take the blame for a war the king was running. This episode covers her unusual education, the Yew Tree Ball of 1745, what she actually wore (the robe a la francaise, the grand habit, the lace in her posthumous inventory), the twelve portraits she commissioned from Boucher, the Sevres pink, the Encyclopedie, the Seven Years War, and how the Goncourt brothers and the American Gilded Age turned her name into a brand. ------------- Find our Podcast on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music or where ever you listen to your podcasts. ------------- Watch our other videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM3OqLHVo6eGkl86dsCJlWdQg9UNuNoWm https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM3OqLHVo6eH5hSfUOdjVzGLZxfJOKbeG -------------- 💬 Which fashion icon should we explore next? Let me know what you think in the comments. 👍 Like, 🔔 subscribe, and click the bell so you never miss an icon. https://www.youtube.com/@TheFashionMemoir ✨ Remember: in fashion as in life, be fearless and fabulous — this is The Fashion Memoir.