When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV
- from that day she was groomed to become a morsel fit for a King. Nancy Mitford lovingly tells the story of how the little girl rose against a backdrop of savage social-climbing intrigue excess & high drama to become the most powerful women of the eighteenth century French court Le Pompadour.