Professor Christine Adams

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Supersluts of History: Royal Mistress Madam du Barry · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

It's only Professor Christine Adams.

How are you doing?

I'm doing fine.

Thank you very much.

Thanks for inviting me today, Kate.

Yes, she is indeed.

I mean, I think that if you think about the names that people know of French royal ministers, Madame de Pompadour and Madame du Barry are probably the best known.

Yeah, they know the British ones, right, so.

Indeed.

I mean, for all sorts of reasons.

I mean, there's portraits of them.

If you go to museums, you'll see portraits of them.

There's a really beautiful one at the National Gallery of Art in D.C.

of Madame du Barry by Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun, who also painted Marie Antoinette, interestingly enough.

That is certainly true of Madame du Barry.

She was the daughter, they think, of perhaps a monk.

And her mother was a seamstress, and then she later became a cook.

So very humble origins of illegitimate birth.

But in fact, that was in some ways, for the French royal mistress at least, that was somewhat unusual.

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