Madame de Pompadour Puns

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Catherine de Medici was a terrible choice to represent the French. She wasn't French, she is mostly remembered for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (I'm French and it was the only thing I remembered about her), it's an odd choice, at best. She's fun to play in the game, it's pretty clear that Firaxis wanted a spying civ, and just found Catherine de Medici to do the job, but as a representation of France she isn't good.

That said I also think it is a good idea to have France be represented by a woman. Thing is, there aren't many good candidates. Joan of Arc fits better as a great general than a leader. Alienor of Aquitaine was a really good choice imo. The fact she speaks Occitan in the game is also a really nice recognition of an unfortunately endangered language.

But one seems to be consistently forgotten by this community : Madame de Pompadour. She got to power by being an official mistress to the King, but she had health issues so eventually she became "friend of the King" and her role was mostly political. She was basically in charge of the country for about 20 years, when the king (Louis XV, not the one that got beheaded) was too depressed to get anything done. She's mostly remembered for being a patron and a diplomat, she really helped sell the idea that France is a land of taste and culture. Also she was bad at war (we lost the Seven Years War badly) and the internet is probably going to find that funny. I see no downside.

Now, the fact she basically fucked her way to power isn't the easiest thing to sell in a family-friendly video game. But considering how horny Cleopatra seems to be in the game, I don't think that should be an issue. Also Wikipedia says she was never in the mood so it should be fine.

We don't need a 4th version of France in Civ 6, especially when there is so few countries represented in Asia, so this is better kept for Civ 7. But if I had to replace Catherine (or even better : just replace the one we got in New Frontier), here's what I would do. Also I try to fix the Chateau because, god, it's terrible

Madame de Pompadour

Leader Ability : Friend of the King - Châteaux provide +1 Great Writer point, +1 Great Artist point and +1 Gold per turn. Great Writers, Great Artists and Great Musicians cost 50% less to purchase with Gold. +25% tourism towards allied Civilizations.

Agenda : Likes civilizations that are willing to trade their great works. Does not like civilizations with themed museums.

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Just a thought I had recently:

(An episode refresher for those who need it!) - In the episode the doctor uses ‘time portals’ to enter into Reinette’s life at different points. Towards the end of the episode, after the baddies have been defeated, he offers Reinette a ride in the Tardis. However, as he goes through the portal into the future to ‘pack his bags’, when he returns (only a few minutes later in his timeline, but years later in hers) he finds she has died from an illness.

My first thought was this; why doesn’t the doctor just take her through the portal with him when he ‘pack his Bags’. He knew about the time gap and that minutes in the future could be years in her world + we saw that she can go through these time windows earlier on in the episode. Surely it would make more sense for him to bring her along to the space ship, instead of leaving her in France and risk decades passing.

My second thought was why doesn’t he just go back in time to save her? It’s not like his own time line is gonna collide, he hadn’t seen her for over a decade before her death. And whilst it would change history, it was the doctor’s plan to change it anyway so why should it matter now? Some things in the show are fixed which I get, but the doctor acted like this event wasn’t fixed yet still didn’t change it?

I did think that the doctor couldn’t actually save her and he knew this, but then it feels kinda cruel to give her the promise of seeing the stars whilst knowing he could never deliver on it. Any thoughts about why my theories make/don’t make sense would be appreciated! Thanks for reading

I saw an episode of Dr. Who (The Girl in the Fireplace) that featured Madame de Pompadour, and from what I’ve read on Wikipedia and others, she was quite remarkable. Are there any good books about her life or her impact on France?

The Doctor shows up when they’re 7 and they both think of him as their “imaginary friend.” Then he shows up later when they’re older and Amy is pissed (rightfully so), but Madame de Pompadour is just like “oh hey fireplace man, it’s been awhile. Let’s make out”

Just interesting, didn’t notice the similarity the first time watching it through.

As follow-up question, is "trendsetting" something of a modern phenomenon? How was information about styles transmitted? Through word of mouth from those present at court etc?

Edit: I'm thinking specifically of later in the early modern period in Europe, so roughly early 1700s to early 1800s.

There are ofcourse logical reasons as to why the Doctor couldn't save her, but there seems to be a workaround, but before I come with them, I'll just leave a question.

Why, in the end, did the doctor use the fireplace instead of the Tardis? It was understandable in the beginning, but didn't make sense near the end. He was well aware about how unreliable it was. Wouldn't it be far wiser to take the safer approach and use the Tardis instead of wasting his chance?

Well, now back to my point. He wouldn't be able to return due to paradoxial reasons. From her letter to him, he knew that he never returned. Or did he? We know that because of this letter, going back to her would have the same results as Rose pushing her dad away from his inevatable death. In front of herself. Well, not quite. The doctor would still be able to go back, because a letter wouldn't necassary be all truth. He could easily have travelled back to her at the promised moment and tell her to write a letter to him in the future where she told him that he never returned to her. Why didn't he just do that? It was definitely a possible scenario. An uncertainty in time is under his control. Thats the differense between Rose's father and this. For Rose, it was already well proven what would happen. For Madame, it was an uncertanty, and that uncertanty will always, 100% of the time, favour the timetraveller. What I am saying is, if he travelled back with this uncertanty in mind, he would have a 100% chance of meeting her without making any paradoxes.

What do you think? Do you disagree? If so, please tell me where I'm wrong. Thank you for reading trough.

The clockwork people were only after her, would they have broken if he'd taken her before she was 'complete'?

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Madame de Pompadour - limited edition 10/10 by Needle

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Have fun with my artwork and stay safe!

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