Professor Christine Adams
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first heard Jun 2026
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You get all this conflicting information.
As you can imagine, there's all these sort of scurrilous biographies of her and trying to figure out what's true and what's not precisely is very tricky.
I should have asked that.
What date is it?
So this is in the 1760s.
She was born in 1743.
She met...
du Barry sometime around 63, 64.
There's sort of evidence of them showing up together by 64.
But he introduces her to the Maître de Richelieu, the Duke of Richelieu, who's a friend of the king's and who himself was very dissolute.
I mean, some people claim that he was the model for Valmont from Dangerous Liaisons.
No.
So they met.
They may have had an affair as well.
And he decided that she was somebody who would be useful to introduce to the king.
The king had lost Madame de Pompadour in 1764.
She had died.
So he had lost his closest advisor, really.
I mean, they were no longer sleeping together at that point, but he was still very devoted to her.
And then his wife died right before he met Jean de Barry.
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