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This is located at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Villa Favorita Lugano Switzerland.*** Concluding the Wikipedia article with her cultural influences, enumerated with "*" bullets and "o" sub-bullets - * The 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot, a unit of the British Army that existed from 1755 to 1881, was nicknamed "The Pompadours", as the purple facing of the regiment's uniform was allegedly de Pompadour's favourite color. Some soldiers of the regiment preferred to claim that it was the colour of her underwear. Its successor, the Essex Regiment, kept the color and the nickname. * The classic pink of Sevres porcelain is rose de Pompadour. * The Pompadour hairstyle is named after her. * "Pompadour heels", (more commonly known as "Louis heels") are named after her. * The "Coupe de champagne" (French champagne glass) is sometimes claimed to have been modelled on the shape of her breast, although this is probably not the case. * Madame de Pompadour has been depicted on screen in film and television on many occasions, beginning with Madame Pompadour in 1927, in which she was played by Dorothy Gish. Other actresses to have played her include: o Anny Ahlers (Die Marquise von Pompadour, 1931); o Jeanne Boitell, (Remontons les Champs-Élyssées, 1938); o Micheline Presle, (Si Versailles m'était conté, 1954); o Monique Lepage, (Le Courrier du roy, 1958); o Elfie Mayerhofer (Madame Pompadour, 1960); o Noemi Nadelmann (Madame Pompadour, 1996); o Katja Flint, (Il Giovane Casanova, 2002); o Sophia Myles (as adult) and Jessica Atkins (as child) (Doctor Who — "The Girl in the Fireplace", a science fiction story, 2006). She is a primary and titular character in the episode. o Hélène de Fougerolles (Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, 2006). * Madame Pompadour, a German operetta with music by Leo Fall and book and lyrics by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch that also had successful adaptations in London (1923) and Broadway (1924). * She was the subject of several portraits throughout her lifetime. * Madame Pompadour is the name of PeeWee's rag doll in the Robert A. Heinlein juvenile novel Have Space Suit—Will Travel. * In My Name is Kim Sam Soon, the title character presents an ice cream confection named the "Marquise Glacée" in honor of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour. * During the musical Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, she is mentioned by an Argentine senator, comparing Eva Peron to her. * In the anime "Le Chevalier d'Eon", she is portrayed as a character that monitors the movements of d'Eon and his men against the Revolutionary brethren. She is voiced by Mayumi Yangisawa in Japanese and by Shelley Calene-Black in the English dub. * Domaine Carneros, located in Napa, CA, makes a brut Roseé de la Pompadour in honor of the mistress and her contributions to literature and the arts. * According to legend, the navette-cut or marquis diamond was commissioned by Louis XV to resemble the mouth of Madame de Pompadour. * The skeleton held within the inner sanctum of the Tomb at Yale University's Skull & Bones senior society is nicknamed after her.

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