Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives; Rose Weitz; Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 266 pp., $24 From pompadour to shag, it's women's mane preoccupation - Los Angeles Times ...

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, may be best known as King Louis XV's chief mistress. But she was also a well-educated tastemaker, a patron of the arts and an artist in her own right.

These pompadour hairstyle for women will be the right choice for festive occasions, fun parties, day-time wedding functions, and more! Once you have the pompadour in the place, choose your pick from ...

Arriving in a pompadour hairdo (think: 2010’s Rihanna), Henson’s beauty look was the manifestation of a moment she had six months ago. She first debuted the >asymmetrical orange pixie cut.

Women who could interpret and curate artistic and scientific innovation played an important role in the French Enlightenment. That’s true for Pompadour–she knew and patronized Enlightenment ...

From Madame de Pompadour to Jeanne du Barry, these women wielded power in pre-Revolutionary France as companion to the king. HISTORY & CULTURE 4 French royal mistresses who made their mark on history ...

Louis XV was a Bourbon, and had their terrible temperament, while Madame de Pompadour was physically a cold woman. She was not strong enough for continual love-making and it exhausted her.

The Pompadour was originally named after Madame De Pompadour, a mistress of King Louis XV and was fashionable to women during that time period of the 18th century.

The Women’s March on Washington, D.C., ... Portrait of Madame de Pompadour by Maurice Quentin de la Tour, painted between 1748 and 1755, Musée du Louvre (via Wikimedia) ...

Yesterday, we held our annual Black Women in Hollywood Awards in Los Angeles, honoring the most gifted Black performers in television and film. Among our exclusive guest list? Fight Night: The ...