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Pompadour was a major [[Patronage|patron]] of architecture and [[decorative arts]], especially [[porcelain]]. She was a patron of the ''[[philosophes]]'' of the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], including [[Voltaire]].
Hostile critics at the time generally tarred her as a malevolent political influence, but historians are more favorable, emphasizing her successes as a patron of the arts and a champion of French pride.<ref>James A. Moncure, ed. ''Research Guide to European Historical Biography: 1450–present'' (4 vol 1992); 4:1646–53</ref> The critics of Pompadour were driven by fears over the overturning of social and gender hierarchies that Pompadour's power and influence, as a woman who was not born into the aristocracy, represented.<ref name="hyde">{{Cite journal|last=Hyde|first=Melissa|date=2000|title=The "Makeup" of the Marquise: Boucher's Portrait of Pompadour at Her Toilette|jstor=3051397|journal=The Art Bulletin|volume=82|issue=3|pages=453–475|doi=10.2307/3051397}}</ref>{{Additional citation needed}}
==Early life==
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