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Fontainebleau was the royal hunting destination in autumn. As Pompadour’s biographer, Nancy Mitford, wrote, the Ermitage’s atmosphere was so alluring that “the king would pretend he was going hunting, leave the palace, booted and spurred, and spend the whole day with her, sometimes cooking their supper himself.” Ms. Mitford also described the marquise’s farmyard, with cows, goats, hens and a donkey, another Petit Trianon precursor. “The Fontainebleau Hermitage belongs now to the Vicomte de Noailles and is the only habitation of Madame de Pompadour’s which she could visit today without grief,” Ms. Mitford wrote in 1954.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:27:31 +0000

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