Madame Pompadour

Famous quotes containing the words madame and/or pompadour:

    Madame d’Estampes and Madame de Valentinois make me fear that I should be only honoured by my husband as a queen and not loved by him as a woman.
    Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    Après nous le déluge.
    [”After us, the flood.”]
    —Madame De Pompadour (1721–1764)