Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, the official mistress of Louis XV of France from 1745 to 1750, lent her titled name to what hairstyle?
Pompadour Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson was given the title of Marquise de Pompadour, and was also known as Madame de Pompadour.
18th century French adventuress Marie du Barry was mistress to Louis XV from 1769 until banished to the country in 1774. How did she die after she returned from a trip to England to sell her jewels in 1793?
In 1750 French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille set up an observatory in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, where he did what?
What name was given to members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France from the 16th to the 18th centuries, many of whom emigrated in the late 17th century, who were inspired by the writings of John Calvin in the 1530s?
