Poisson, Jeanne Antoinette
1721 - Born on December 29th in Paris, France. The influential mistress of the French king Louis XV and a notable patron of literature and the arts.
1744 - Mistress of Louis XV of France. She largely dictated the government's ill-fated policy of reversing France's anti-Austrian policy for an anti-Prussian one.
- She acted as the patron of the Enlightenment philosophers Voltaire and Diderot.
1764 - Died on April 15th in Versailles.
1744 - Mistress of Louis XV of France. She largely dictated the government's ill-fated policy of reversing France's anti-Austrian policy for an anti-Prussian one.
- She acted as the patron of the Enlightenment philosophers Voltaire and Diderot.
1764 - Died on April 15th in Versailles.
Page last updated: 1:54am, 02nd Jun '07
