An English bibliotaph of fifty years residence in Wales pontificates about politics (slightly off-message), films and trivia. Acting secretary of Aberavon and Neath Liberal Democrats. Candidate for Neath in the Westminster elections of 1997 & 2017 and the Welsh general election of 2016.
Wednesday, 29 December 2021
Madame de Pompadour
After last Sunday's dramatisation of sex in high places on BBC-TV, it is appropriate to remark on the 300th anniversary of Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour, influential mistress of Louis XV, King of France.
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