Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford

Author:Nancy Mitford [Mitford, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781448103492
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Withdrawn from the sale, by Marigny, was Représentations de M. le Lt Général de Police de Paris sur les Courtisanes à la Mode et les Demoiselles de Bon Ton, par une Demoiselle de Bon Ton.

These books were all bound in calf, or red, blue or citron morocco gilt, with the castles and the griffins of her coat of arms. She had a great love of beautiful morocco, and after her death several choice skins, ready for working, were found among her belongings.

Madame de Pompadour never seems to have sold any of the objects which belonged to her. They accumulated in their thousands, and filled all her many houses to overflowing; after her death Marigny was obliged to take two big houses in Paris which, as well as the Elysée and the Réservoirs, contained her goods until the sale of them began. Furniture, china, statues, pictures, books, plants, jewels, linen, silver, carriages, horses, yards and hundreds of yards of stuff, trunks full of dresses, cellars full of wine; the inventory of all this, divided into nearly three thousand lots, very few lots containing less than a dozen objects, took two lawyers more than a year to make. Few human beings since the world began can have owned so many beautiful things.

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