Professor Christine Adams
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 12 Jun
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Jeanne Bécu.
B-E-C-U.
But she goes by several different names during her wild youth.
She becomes Jeanne Vaubanier.
I'm not quite sure where that name comes from.
She's also referred to sometimes as Mademoiselle Lange, which means the angel, and apparently in reference to her angelic looks.
She was stunningly beautiful, apparently.
I mean, the reports consistently are that she was very beautiful, curly blonde hair, tall, beautiful skin, beautiful.
They make sort of reference to her large bosom, which they call it unfashionable.
But anyway, so she was apparently quite attractive.
No, that's absolutely true.
I mean, the royal mistresses, there are very few that are not beautiful.
And actually, as I sort of think back through, I mean, for the French kings, I mean, no, they're usually quite stunningly beautiful.
Madame de Pompadour,
less consistently is is referred to as beautiful or stunning i mean people refer to her they they say she has very nice eyes a little small which seems like god um and and you know so there's mixed commentary on her but but dubarry is sort of universally acclaimed as a stunning beauty and that's probably what got her into the circles that she was in right so a total hottie
Right.
Now, Asia Argento, who plays her in the Marie Antoinette movie that Sofia Coppola made back in 2006.
Yeah, she's very dark.
We would consider her beautiful today, but certainly would not have been considered so in the context of the court in the 1770s.
And the same with Mai Wen, who just recently made a movie about her.
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