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Title: Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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Gresset; she protected Marmontel; she welcomedDuclos; she admired Montesquieu and plainly showed it.She would have liked to serve Jean-Jacques Rousseau.When the King of Prussia ostentatiously gave dAlemberta modest pension and Louis XV. was scoffing in herpresence at the amount (1200 livres), in comparison withthe term sublime genius, for which it was given, she advisedhim to forbid the philosopher to accept it and to doubleit himself; which Louis XV. did not dare to do \ his re-ligious principles would not permit it on account of theEncy elope die. It was not her fault that we cannot say thecentury of Louis XV., as we say the century of Louis XIV. There are then in the career and power of Madame dePompadour two distinct periods : the first, the most brilliantand most greatly favoured, was that following the peace ofAix-la-Chapelle (1748): in this, she completely playedher role of a youthful favourite, fond of peace, the arts,the pleasures of the mind, and advising and protecting all
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Portrait of Madame de Pompadour. De la Tour. MADAME DE POMPADOUR 179 things happily. There was a second period, greatlycheckered, but more frequently disastrous and fatal ;this was the whole period of the Seven Years War, theattempted assassination by Damiens, the defeat of Rosbach,and the insults of the victorious Frederick. These wereharsh years which prematurely aged this weak and gracefulwoman, who was drawn into a struggle beyond herstrength. . . . However, my impression is that thingsmight have been worse, and that, with the aid of M. deChoiseul, by means of the Family Compact she againcovered her own mistakes and the humiliation of theFrench monarchy with a certain amount of prestige. It seems that the nation itself felt this and felt moreespecially that after this brilliant favourite there wouldbe a greater fall; for when she died at Versailles, April 15,1764, the regret of the Parisian populace, which someyears before would have stoned her, was universal. . . The one who seem

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