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Created on 2012-01-18 21:39:02 (#1434498), last updated 2014-11-11 (549 weeks ago)

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	Name: Jeanne-Antionette Poisson Aliases: Reinette, Madame Etoiles, Madame de Pompadour Race: Human Date of Birth: 1721, in Paris Occupation: Courtesan, Mistress to King Louis XV. Resides in:Various locations, in and around Paris, including, but not limited to the palace at Versailles

	Early Life: Madame de Pompadour was born Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson in 1721 in Paris. It is suspected that her biological father was the rich financier Le Normant de Tournehem, who became her legal guardian when her official father was forced to leave the country in 1725 after a scandal and she lived with her mother and sister. Her younger brother was Abel-François Poisson de Vandières (who would later become the Marquis de Marigny). She was intelligent, beautiful, and educated; she also learned to dance, engrave and to play the clavichord. She was married in 1741 (at the age of 19) to Charles-Guillaume Le Normant d'Etiolles, nephew of her guardian. With him, she had two children, a boy who died the year after his birth in 1741, and Alexandrine-Jeanne, born August 10, 1744, and nicknamed "Fanfan." The King's Mistress: Poisson caught the eye of the monarch Louis XV in 1745. A group of courtiers, including her father-in-law, endorsed her as courtesan to Louis XV, who was still mourning the death of his second mistress, the Duchess of Châteauroux. Jeanne-Antoinette was invited to a royal masquerade ball in February 1745 that celebrated the marriage of the king's son. By March she had become a regular visitor and king's mistress, and the king installed her at Versailles. He also bought her Pompadour, the first of six residences. In July, Louis made her a marquise, had her legally separated from her husband, and on September 14 she was formally presented at court. Madame de Pompadour was an accomplished woman, with a good eye for Rococo interiors. She had a keen interest in literature. She had known Voltaire before her ascendancy, and the playwright apparently advised her in her courtly role. Contrary to popular belief - and contemporary opinion - she never had much direct political influence, but she supported Belle Île and endorsed the Duke of Choiseul to the king. However, she did wield considerable power and control behind the scenes, which was reflected when another of the king's mistresses, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, attempted to replace her around 1754. The younger and less experienced O'Murphy was arranged to be married off to a lesser noble and out of the royal court's inner circle. Last Years: Pompadour suffered two miscarriages in the 1750s, and she is said to have arranged lesser mistresses for the king's pleasure to replace herself. Although they did not sleep together after 1750, Louis XV remained devoted to her until her death in 1764 at the age of 42. At the time she was publicly blamed for the Seven Years' War.

	The Girl in The Fireplace: As a child in 1727, young Reinette saw a man speak to her from behind the fireplace in her bedroom. The mysterious man was, in fact, the Doctor, a mysterious time traveler from another world, who was, in fact, sitting in a spaceship from the 51st century. He continues to save her throughout her life, changing both her future and her as a person through his actions.

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theatrical_muse, I am neither Madame de Pompadour, nor Sophia Myles, the actress who played her in the Doctor Who episode "the Girl in the Fireplace", and am, in no way, shape, or form, related to them.

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