Madame de Pompadour citations

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour, duchesse de Menars, née le 29 décembre 1721 à Paris et morte le 15 avril 1764 à Versailles, est une Française, femme d'influence sur les plans politique et artistique, devenue favorite de Louis XV, roi de France et de Navarre.

✵ 29. décembre 1721 – 15. avril 1764
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Madame de Pompadour: Citations en anglais

“One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.”

Said while the French financial system was on the verge of collapse, as quoted in Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) by E. Cobham Brewer. Brewer states that this was sometimes attributed to the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, but that he was probably simply quoting Madame de Pompadour.

“After us, the deluge. I care not what happens when I am dead and gone.”

Said while the French financial system was on the verge of collapse, as quoted in Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) by E. Cobham Brewer. Brewer states that this was sometimes attributed to the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, but that he was probably simply quoting Madame de Pompadour.

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