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

And so for the next 15 years, yeah, she was his advisor.

She was his best friend.

They spent a lot of time together.

And what he did for his sexual satisfaction is that a series of young women were brought to what was called the Paco Sef, this sort of location that was just not at Versailles, where a series of young, nubile women were brought, like 15, 16-year-olds, so that they were not sexually experienced.

They would not have diseases, and he could meet up with them.

Oh, less cool.

Yeah.

Some people claim that Pompadour was involved in this.

This seems unlikely, although it's likely she knew that it was happening and just sort of closed her eyes to it.

So as you can imagine, the series of 15 and 16 year olds were also probably not sexually experienced.

Yeah, I guess.

So suddenly he meets Madame du Barry, who was Jean Vaubanier, whatever she was going by at the time when they first met.

And she has had a lot of sexual experience.

And this is something that both the writers of memoirs and the sort of scandalous literature about her talk about that she was well-versed in the arts of love.

And I guess we can sort of use our imaginations as to what that meant.

Right.

And if you were, you know, hanging out with these noblemen and if you were a courtesan and if you in fact had this, I mean, she had this relationship with Dubarry, who seems to have coached her.

I mean, it seems that, I mean, I don't find that implausible, especially because he truly is, I mean, everybody at court says he's just besotted with her.

Like she goes to meetings, Madame Campon, who is part of the household of Marie Antoinette, talks about her being perched on the arm of his chair during meetings.

Yeah, right.

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