It takes the average reader 5 hours and 3 minutes to read Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones. History has loved her little better.Nancy Mitford's delightfully candid biography re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. We learn that the Queen was a "bore," the Dauphin a "prig," and see France increasingly...
Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford is 296 pages long, and a total of 75,776 words.
This makes it 100% the length of the average book. It also has 93% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 54 minutes to read Madame de Pompadour aloud.
Madame de Pompadour is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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