What is Madame de Pompadour?
{{Infobox nobility | name = Jeanne Antoinette Poisson | full name = Jeanne Antoinette Poisson | title = Marquise of Pompadour | image = Boucher Marquise de Pompadour 1756 detail.jpg | image_size = 220px | caption = Portrait by [[François Boucher]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1721|12|29|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Paris]], [[France]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1764|4|15|1721|12|29|df=yes}} | death_place = Paris, France | occupation = Chief [[mistress]] to [[Louis XV of France|Louis XV]] | spouse = Charles Guillaume le Normant d'Étiolles {{nowrap|{{small|(1717–99, m. 1741)}}}} | father = François Poisson | mother = Madeleine de la Motte | issue = {{Plainlist}} * Guillaume Charles le Normant d'Étiolles {{nowrap|{{small|(1741–42)}}}} * [[Alexandrine Le Normant d'Étiolles|Alexandrine Jeanne le Normant d'Étiolles]] {{nowrap|{{small|(1744–54)}}}} {{Endplainlist}} }} '''Jeanne Antoinette Poisson''' was better known as '''Madame de Pompadour'''. The '''Marquise of Pompadour''' (29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764) was courtier and the official chief [[mistress (lover)|mistress]] of [[Louis XV]] from 1745 until her death. She was born in [[Paris]], Kingdom of [[France]], and died there from [[tuberculosis]] at 42. She was presented to the royal court by a cousin of the King, the [[Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon|Princess of Conti]]. ==Gallery == <gallery> File:Pompadour6.jpg|1755, by Quentin de la Tour File:Jean-Marc Nattier, Madame de Pompadour en Diane (1746).jpg|Pompadour as Diana by Jean-Marc Nattier File:Madame de Pompadour.jpg |Portrait by Boucher File:Madame de Pompadour by François-Hubert Drouais.jpg|Finished posthumously in 1764 by Drouais </gallery> {{authority control}} [[Category:1721 births]] [[Category:1764 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from tuberculosis]] [[Category:Infectious disease deaths in France]] [[Category:People from Paris]]