Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, between 1748 and 1755, currently at the Louvre Museum. Public Domain Madame de Pompadour is perhaps most associated with the ...

Check out these pompadours! It takes a lot of guts to rock such a huge hairdo, in all senses of the word. In case you aren't familiar with this hairstyle, "pompadour" basically means short on the ...

The mystique and allure of Madame de Pompadour’s partially mythic legacy has attracted the attention of generations of historians and the public. But her full legacy includes more than just being the ...

Have you ever wondered how to achieve singer Janelle Monae’s signature pompadour hair do? I know I have. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this style, a pompadour is a hairstyle that is big on ...

Madame de Pompadour was a power to be reckoned with during the reign of her lover, the French king Louis XV. Born Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, she rose through the proverbial ranks at the court of ...

The saying goes that when it comes to clothing and hairstyles, everything trendy eventually comes back into fashion. That's certainly true of the pompadour hairstyle, which, more than 250 years after ...

France's Loire Valley is, of course, famous for its regal châteaux. Visitors have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose. One can meander through the more than 500 rooms of the Château de ...

When Louis XV, King of France, first met the woman who would become his chief mistress, she was dressed as a domino, and he was dressed as a plant. It was 1745, and Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, the ...