Madame Dubarri

Zhanna Dubarri is the last in a series of brilliant favorites at the French court of the 18th century, which conquered the heart of Louis XV and brightened up his years at the sunset of life.
From a small modist, she turned into a person closest to Louis, making, according to him, to “forget his age and his misfortunes" and taking an unlimited influence on him, although, unlike her predecessor Madame de Pompadur, specially for this I did not strive. She was little interested in state affairs and court intrigues, but thanks to the rare beauty and sensuality, in just five years from the “queen of bed”, as she was called, “almost a queen”, a living legend, to which fate eventually turned out to be no complacent