Madame Pompadour

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    There was also a Nonne, a prioresse,
    That of hir smylyng was ful symple and coy;
    Hire gretteste ooth was but by Seint Loy.
    And she was cleped madame Eglentyne.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

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