Yew_Tree_Ball

The Yew Tree Ball

The Yew Tree Ball

Add article description

The Yew Tree Ball (French: Le bal des ifs) was a masked ball held in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles on the night of 25–26 February 1745. 1,500 people attended.[1] King Louis XV and several of his gentlemen courtiers appeared dressed as topiary yew trees. The ball is notorious for being the venue in which the king made contact with Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson. He had first seen her while hunting at Senart. On 14 September 1745, Poisson was officially presented to the Court as the Marquise de Pompadour. She became the king’s official mistress until her death in 1764.

  • Louis XV
  • Pompadour dressed as Diana, 1746
  • Invitation to the ball
  • The Yew Tree Ball, 1745

Notes

  1. [1]
    "The Yew Ball 25-26 February 1745". Chateau de Versailles. Retrieved 2021-02-28.

References
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Yew_Tree_Ball, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.