Madame de Pompadour in a film. The intimate problems she was suffering from cost the Marchesa slander and mockery
Once she has achieved the main purpose of her life, that of becoming the king's official lover, Madame de Pompadour she attracted around her person the implacable hatred of courtiers and commoners.
That an ordinary bourgeois, albeit intelligent, beautiful and cultured, had entered the bed of Louis XV and even influenced their political choices, it was an intolerable affront to the aristocracy of the time.
At a certain point in every street and alley of Paris, obscene songs began to play at the address of the putain Pompadour, while everywhere it was possible to come across pamphlets that insulted and mocked her.
The sovereign was forced to bother the police to punish those responsible, who were never found, with the exception of someone, who, however, did not live in the slums of the city, but at court, where the enemies of the Marchesa were very numerous.
Among the most bitter was none other than Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux de Maurepas , secretary of state, author of terrible verses against the favorite, who, once discovered, was obviously dismissed.
But what had Maurepas written about so terrible to provoke the king's wrath and be expelled from Versailles?
Having learned of the embarrassing intimate problems that afflicted the Pompadour, or losses due to an infection in the uterus, the evil politician had taken care to circulate "poems" like this:
“Enchant our hearts; you sow flowers on our way. But they are white flowers ”.
Alluding, not too subtly and in a perfectly understandable way to most, to the annoying vaginal discharge of his victim.