>>Some study history for knowledge, others to
honor their ancestors, but few, I suspect, do so
to improve their sex lives. This is most
unfortunate, since buried within the lives of
great men are history's compelling stories of
romance, and in them useful, practical lessons on
how to seduce that special, or even
not-so-special, someone. For my own part, I feel
a pressing urge to write a few kind words about a
certain marquise de Pompadour, best known as
Louis XV's official mistress, and someone who, I
think, has much to teach us about seduction and human nature.
That history has ignored the woman who seduced
Louis XV is disappointing but not altogether
surprising, for to have as your life's principal
achievement the seduction of an utter mediocrity,
to be, as it were, the Edwina Currie of the
ancien régime, inspires more contempt than
admiration. Baudelaire wrote no poetry in
Pompadour's honor, Camille Paglia passed her over
in Sexual Personae, and the nicest thing I could
find that anyone interesting has written about
Pompadour was, "Elle pensait comme il faut",
which, since it came from the author of Candide,
is probably a mark against her. Though not,
perhaps, the most significant event in
pre-revolutionary French history, Pompadour's
seduction of Louis was a remarkable
accomplishment in its own right, since only a
very special woman is able to seduce the King of France.<<
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