Professor Christine Adams
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Because previous royal mistresses...
had had a reason to be at court.
The reason that the king came into contact with them is they were already at court.
And so they were to be at court, you were of noble background, usually not of the highest noble background, but sort of the lesser nobility.
And so the king would have come into contact with them.
That was what was unusual, both about Madame de Pompadour, who was Madame du Barry's immediate predecessor.
She came from the financial bourgeoisie in Paris.
Madame du Barry, though, came obviously from lower status.
And I mean, she got a good education.
She was actually educated at a convent.
You know, she left the convent when she was 15.
She worked as a domestic servant, they think, for a time.
And then she worked at what was called a boutique de mode, a fashion store where people came to buy clothes.
Then at some point, she met this kind of dissolute provincial nobleman, Jean-Baptiste Dubarry, who was nicknamed the Roué.
Oh, is it always the Roué?
Yes, always the way.
And so they're not precisely sure how they met, because obviously the details are kind of fuzzy as to her background, since nobody was paying attention and keeping records through her youth.
But they...
They became clandestine lovers.
And then at some point, he also became her pimp.
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