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Madame de Pompadour

1721 - 1764

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Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (, French: [pɔ̃paduʁ] ; 29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764), commonly known as Madame de Pompadour, was a member of the French court. She was the official chief mistress of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1751, and remained influential as court favourite until her death. Pompadour took charge of the king's schedule and was a valued aide and advisor, despite her frail health and many political enemies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Madame de Pompadour has received more than 3,311,062 page views. Her biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Madame de Pompadour is the 14th most popular companion, the 94th most popular biography from France (up from 117th in 2019) and the most popular French Companion.

Madame de Pompadour was most famous for being the mistress of King Louis XV.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Madame de Pompadour ranks 14 out of 673. Before her are Nurbanu Sultan, Eva Braun, Helena, Khadija bint Khuwaylid, Empress Joséphine, and Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma. After her are Nefertari, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jane Seymour, Ankhesenamun, Roxana, and Bathsheba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1721, Madame de Pompadour ranks 1. After her are Bernardo Bellotto, Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, Tobias Smollett, Samuel von Brukenthal, and Johann Kirnberger. Among people deceased in 1764, Madame de Pompadour ranks 1. After her are Jean-Philippe Rameau, Ivan VI of Russia, William Hogarth, Christian Goldbach, Pietro Locatelli, Jean-Marie Leclair, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Johann Mattheson, Erik Pontoppidan, Francesco Algarotti, and William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire.

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In France

Among people born in France, Madame de Pompadour ranks 94 out of 6,011. Before her are Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), Napoleon II (1811), Jean-François Champollion (1790), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Maurice Ravel (1875), and Jean de La Fontaine (1621). After her are Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Henry II of France (1519), Philip V of Spain (1683), Peter Abelard (1079), Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708), and Charles Aznavour (1924).

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Among COMPANIONS In France

Among companions born in France, Madame de Pompadour ranks 1. After her are Joseph Bonaparte (1768), Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), Madame du Barry (1743), Désirée Clary (1777), Elisabeth of Valois (1545), Isabella of France (1295), Claude of France (1499), Hortense de Beauharnais (1783), Brigitte Macron (1953), Emma of Normandy (985), and Henrietta Maria of France (1609).

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