“When the time came for Pompadour herself to die, she confessed, was given her viaticum, and was from that time forth forbidden to see her lover. And when her body was borne away from Versailles, Louis was thought to have behaved rather badly because he watched the sad procession from a balcony. Let no one suppose that these people lived lives that were any more free from religious and neighbourly censure than the adulterers in our smallest Canadian villages. Even wealth and privilege could not wholly insulate them from that frost.”
Madame de Pompadour (1954).
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(1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Madame de Pompadour.
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Source: Lady of Mazes (2005), Chapter 7 (p. 66).