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Privately, she remained ‘deeply shaken’. The contemporary noted that this behaviour was regular for courtiers. Her grandfather, François
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origins, although this was probably an excuse for her own unwillingness. Although
Pompadour could hope for an advantageous marriage for her daughter, the highest-ranking families did not want to be related to her. In the summer of 1752, she agreed with her close friend,
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with the King and could not leave to see her daughter, while
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was inscribed, ‘Here lies
Alexandrine-Jeanne, daughter of Messire Charles-Guillaume Le Normant and Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, Dame de Crécy, etc’. Pompadour often visited the grave to
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Alexandrine and the two occasionally played together. However, Louis XV did not agree to the plan. Pompadour then negotiated with
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when she was informed of her child’s death that onlookers feared she would collapse and die herself. She left court to spend a week in her
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were raised, in order to prepare her for a career at court. Before entering, she spent a week with her mother in
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her ‘Fanfan’. She was described as ‘very thin’ but healthy. Her education was supervised by the novelist
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