Professor Christine Adams
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And she asks for a pardon for them as well.
at the request of the Countess de Biens, the same one who presented her at court.
And so she does these favors for people who are not really even very nice to her.
Wow.
Yeah.
So she's, I mean, like I said, she's universally known as somebody who is really very pleasant.
In contrast, once again, to Pompadour, who took names and, you know, and remembered who her enemies were and did them in.
So she is quite beautiful, but also...
she's somebody who had more sexual experience than his previous, his previous mistresses or his previous lovers.
If you go back and sort of look at his, his, his previous mistresses, he had prior to Madame de Pompadour, he had a series of sisters who, who like in turn served as, but they were, they were noble women and, and there's not his, not, not his sisters, but they were sisters to each other.
Okay.
Madame de Pompadour,
They notoriously did not like sex.
I've heard that.
I was going to ask you if that was true.
I mean, it seems to be true.
Now, the problem is, of course, that there are fake memoirs that talk about this and all the best anecdotes are sort of of questionable origins, but it does seem quite true.
It does seem that she had a gynecological issue that made sex unpleasant for her.
So their actual sexual relationship appears to have lasted only about five years from 1745 to 1750.
And at that point, she transformed into his best friend.
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