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The entire year is 1745, and Ruler Louis XV's bed is once more bare. Enter Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, a lovely girl from the middle classes. As a kid, a fortune-teller experienced informed young Jeanne's future: She'd become the enthusiast of a king and the most effective female in the land. Eventually associations, luck, and just a little scheming pave her way to Versailles and into the king's arms. All too soon, conniving politicians and hopeful beauties seek to replace the bourgeois interloper with a far more appropriate mistress. As Jeanne, now the Marquise de Pompadour, takes on her many rivals - including a lustful lady-in-waiting, a precocious 14-year-old prostitute, and even a cousin of the notorious Nesle sisters - she helps the king give himself over to a life of luxury and depravity. Around them battle rages, discontent increases, and France inches ever closer to the Revolution.
