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|individual name= Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson
|alias = Madame de Pompadour, Reinette, Madame d'Etoiles, Marquise de Pompadour
|alias = Madame de Pompadour<br>Reinette
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|home era=[[18th century]]
|species = Human
|appearances=[[DW]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]
|spouse = d'Étiolles{{!}}Charles Guillaume Le Normant d'Étiolles
|actor=<ul><li>[[Jessica Atkins]] (child)</li><li> [[Sophia Myles]] (adult)</li></li>
|partner = Louis XV
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|origin = [[Paris]]
'''Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson''' ([[1721]]–[[1764]]), often known by nicknames '''Reinette''' and '''Madame de Pompadour''', was a well-known courtesan and the famous mistress of King [[Louis XV]] of [[France]].
|birth date = [[29 December]] [[1721]]
==Profile==
|death date = [[15 April]] [[1764]] (aged 42)
[[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] met and romanced Reinette at several points during her life as a result of time manipulation by the [[Clockwork Robots|robots from the future]]. She referred to the Doctor as ''"my lonely angel"'' who, using his Time Lord abilities, examined Reinette's brain, having a look at her past experiences. It was not long before the Doctor realised that Reinette was also using this opportunity gaze within the Doctor's mind at his lonely childhood. When he questioned Reinette about how she managed that, she explained that ''"a door once opened may be stepped through in either direction."''.
|first cs = The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)
|appearances = {{il|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)}}|[[GAME]]: {{cs|Legacy (video game)}}|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Lord Letters (novel)}}|[[WC]]: {{cs|Pompadour (webcast)}}|[[PROSE]]: {{cs|Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)}}}}
|actor = Sophia Myles
|other actor= Jessica Atkins
|clip = Reinette and the Doctor - Doctor Who - The Girl in the Fireplace - BBC
|clip2 = Seven years bad luck - Doctor Who - The Girl in the Fireplace - Series 2 - BBC
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'''Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson''' ([[29 December]] [[1721]] – [[15 April]] [[1764]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)}})), also known as '''Madame de Pompadour''' was a member of the [[French]] court and the official chief [[mistress]] of [[King]] [[Louis XV]] of [[France]]. In childhood she was given the nickname '''Reinette''', "little Queen"; in her later life she went by '''Madame d'Etoiles''' and, after separating from [[d'Étiolles|her husband]], '''Marquise de Pompadour'''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Lord Letters (novel)}})
 
In her life she was, according to the Doctor, an "[[actress]], [[artist]], [[musician]], [[dancer]], [[courtesan]], fantastic [[gardener]]!" To Rose's surprise, Reinette actually got along well with [[Louis XV's wife|her lover's real wife]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)}})
 
== Biography ==
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, known to her family as Reinette, was born in [[Paris]] on [[29 December]] [[1721]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)}})
 
[[File:The Girl in the Fireplace (TGITF).jpg|thumb|left|A young Reinette finds the Doctor in her fireplace. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)}})]]
The [[Tenth Doctor]] met Reinette several times in her life as a result of [[time]] manipulation by the [[Clockwork Droid]]s. The first was in [[1727]], when she was a child, and they briefly talked through her fireplace, which was a time window between the [[18th century]] and the [[51st century|51st]]. Months later, from her perspective, the Doctor visited her in person, and saved her from a Clockwork Droid under her bed. Over the years, she attributed this event to a nightmare, and saw the Doctor as an imaginary friend. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)}})
 
At the age of nine, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A History of Humankind (novel)}}) Jeanne-Antoinette met a [[Fortune Teller (The Slow Path)|Fortune Teller]] who predicted that she would eventually marry the [[King]]. There after she was given the nickname "Reinette" - which means "little Queen". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Lord Letters (novel)}})
 
[[File:Snogging Pompadour (TGITF).jpg|thumb|right|Reinette passionately kisses her "imaginary friend". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)}})]]
As an adult, Reinette met the Doctor again, realising he was real. After flirting with him, she kissed him for the first time, before having to join her mother. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)}})
 
In [[1741]], Reinette married [[Charles Guillaume Le Normant d'Étiolles]] and became Madame d'Étiolles. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)}})
 
On [[8 December]] [[1744]], the mistress of King Louis XV, [[De Châteauroux|Madame de Châteauroux]], died from illness. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)}}) Reinette and her friend Katherine were observed talking in the garden about how the Louis' mistress was ill, and she briefly sensed the Doctor's presence. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)}})
 
On [[25 February]] [[1745]], Reinette met Louis XV for the first time at the [[Yew Tree Ball]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)}}) The Doctor, Rose and Mickey watched the pair through a time window; she flirted with him, but was attacked by [[Repair droid 7|another Clockwork Droid]]. The Doctor saved her with a futuristic [[fire extinguisher]], and discovered that the Droids would answer only to her. Reinette interrogated it as to why they were stalking her, and it revealed they wanted her head to repair [[SS Madame de Pompadour|their ship]], but she was not "complete" yet. After the droid said they were "the same", the appalled Reinette ordered it to leave.
 
[[File:Stalking ship (TGITF).jpg|thumb|left|"Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, known to her friends as Reinette. One of the most accomplished women who ever lived". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)}})]]
Reinette and the Doctor began to form a romantic relationship. She called the Doctor her "lonely [[angel]]". Using his [[Time Lord]] abilities, the Doctor examined Reinette's mind to look at her past experiences. It was not long before he realised that Reinette was also using this opportunity to gaze within his own mind, witnessing his lonely childhood. When he asked Reinette how she managed that, she said that "a door once opened may be stepped through in either direction." To comfort him, Reinette took him to the Yew Tree ball, telling him that "every lonely little boy must learn to dance". Reinette danced firstly with the Doctor, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)}}) then with the King at the Ball. She soon became his mistress, and the King purchased the marquisate of [[Pompadour]] for her. She took up residence at [[Versailles]] and befriended the King's wife ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)}})
 
At age 32, Reinette was visited by Rose, who told her the Clockwork Droids would come for her in five years time, on her 37th birthday. After Rose explained the Droids were hunting her throughout her life, trying to find her at age 37, as that was the age of the ship, Reinette followed her onto the ship, and heard her future self's screams. Disturbed, she elected to take "the slow path".
 
On her 37th birthday, as predicted, the Droids attacked, and Reinette was led to the hall by them. She refused to go with them to their ship, so they decided to take her head there and then. Reinette calmly treated them as her childhood nightmare, knowing "their nightmare" would come for them. The Doctor arrived, smashing threw a time window into the hall. This broke the connection to the ship, and the Droids, having failed, all shut down.
 
[[File:Paris by six (TGITF).jpg|thumb|right|"Leaving Versailles for the last time. Only forty three when she died. Too young". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)}})]]
When the Doctor was stranded in the 18th century, Reinette sadly showed him that her fireplace still functioned as a way back to the 51st century. The Doctor invited her to travel with him but, due to the [[time differential]], she [[died]] before she could do so.
 
Reinette died on [[15 April]] [[1764]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)}}) In her final days, she wrote a letter to the Doctor, and after her death, as they watched a black cab take her body from Versailles for the last time, the King gave the Doctor the letter. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)}})
 
=== Letter to the Doctor ===
{{quote|My dear Doctor: the path has never seemed more slow, and yet I fear I am nearing its end. Reason tells me that you and I are unlikely to meet again, but I think I shall not listen to reason. I have seen the world inside your head and know that all things are possible. Hurry though, my love: my days grow shorter now, and I am so very weak. Godspeed, my lonely angel.|Reinette}}
 
=== Legacy ===
Her [[fireplace]] was later owned by [[Scaroth|Count Scarlioni]] in [[Paris]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|City of Death (novelisation)}})


When Reinette showed the Doctor, briefly stranded in the 18th century, a way back to his original time, the Doctor invited her to travel with him, but due to time differential she died before she was able to do so.
In the [[51st century]], the starship SS ''Madame de Pompadour'' was named after her. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)}}) Due to the Clockwork Droids scanning her brain, the ship's computer began believing itself to be Reinette. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Pompadour (webcast)}})


In the [[51st century]], the starship ''[[SS Madame De Pompadour]]'' would be named after her. Reinette herself would very briefly set foot upon the vessel when she stepped through one of the time portals that had been created on the vessel. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'')
When [[River Song]] met the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s companion [[Helen Sinclair]], she advised Helen to have the Doctor take her to Versailles at some point, but advised her to have him avoid meeting Madame de Pompadour, as it would make things complicated. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Doomsday Chronometer (audio story)}})


===Letter to the Doctor===
Reinette was unintentionally referenced by [[Joan Redfern]], when she commented on how [[John Smith (Tenth Doctor)|John Smith]]'s journal had "a girl in every fireplace". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Human Nature (TV story)}})


<blockquote>''My dear Doctor: the path has never seemed more slow, and yet I fear I am nearing its end. Reason tells me that you and I are unlikely to meet again, but I think I shall not listen to reason. I have seen the world inside your head and know that all things are possible. Hurry though, my love: my days grow shorter now, and I am so very weak. Godspeed, my lonely angel.''</blockquote>
The [[Eleventh Doctor]], stressing the importance of preventing the [[Sontaran]]s' interference in the [[timeline]], cited Madame de Pompadour as an example of an important person in [[human]] [[history]] whose existence was endangered. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Legacy (video game)}})


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== Other realities ==
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In a reality created when the [[CyberReaper]] unleashed the [[Reality Virus]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] stayed with Reinette and started a family with her. The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] was unable to bring herself to destroy the reality, even though it would stop the [[Cybermen]]'s plans, so a [[Human (The Edge of Time)|human]] did so on their own. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|The Edge of Reality (video game)}})
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== Personality ==
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Reinette demonstrated intelligence and an open-minded nature in her thinking, accepting both the futuristic world and the fact of the Doctor being an alien. She also showed amazing courage. Instead of running away, she defied the Clockwork Droids and stood up to them, even at blade-point, insisting that the Doctor would come.
 
Reinette further had great compassion for the Doctor, pitying him for his loneliness. She was sympathetic after looking into his childhood memories. She and the Doctor shared a strong romantic connection with each other. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)}})
 
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Latest revision as of 21:22, 25 November 2024

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson (29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764 (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"])), also known as Madame de Pompadour was a member of the French court and the official chief mistress of King Louis XV of France. In childhood she was given the nickname Reinette, "little Queen"; in her later life she went by Madame d'Etoiles and, after separating from her husband, Marquise de Pompadour. (PROSE: The Time Lord Letters [+]Loading...["The Time Lord Letters (novel)"])

In her life she was, according to the Doctor, an "actress, artist, musician, dancer, courtesan, fantastic gardener!" To Rose's surprise, Reinette actually got along well with her lover's real wife. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"])

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, known to her family as Reinette, was born in Paris on 29 December 1721. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"])

A young Reinette finds the Doctor in her fireplace. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"])

The Tenth Doctor met Reinette several times in her life as a result of time manipulation by the Clockwork Droids. The first was in 1727, when she was a child, and they briefly talked through her fireplace, which was a time window between the 18th century and the 51st. Months later, from her perspective, the Doctor visited her in person, and saved her from a Clockwork Droid under her bed. Over the years, she attributed this event to a nightmare, and saw the Doctor as an imaginary friend. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"])

At the age of nine, (PROSE: A History of Humankind [+]Loading...["A History of Humankind (novel)"]) Jeanne-Antoinette met a Fortune Teller who predicted that she would eventually marry the King. There after she was given the nickname "Reinette" - which means "little Queen". (PROSE: The Time Lord Letters [+]Loading...["The Time Lord Letters (novel)"])

Reinette passionately kisses her "imaginary friend". (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"])

As an adult, Reinette met the Doctor again, realising he was real. After flirting with him, she kissed him for the first time, before having to join her mother. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"])

In 1741, Reinette married Charles Guillaume Le Normant d'Étiolles and became Madame d'Étiolles. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"])

On 8 December 1744, the mistress of King Louis XV, Madame de Châteauroux, died from illness. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"]) Reinette and her friend Katherine were observed talking in the garden about how the Louis' mistress was ill, and she briefly sensed the Doctor's presence. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"])

On 25 February 1745, Reinette met Louis XV for the first time at the Yew Tree Ball. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"]) The Doctor, Rose and Mickey watched the pair through a time window; she flirted with him, but was attacked by another Clockwork Droid. The Doctor saved her with a futuristic fire extinguisher, and discovered that the Droids would answer only to her. Reinette interrogated it as to why they were stalking her, and it revealed they wanted her head to repair their ship, but she was not "complete" yet. After the droid said they were "the same", the appalled Reinette ordered it to leave.

"Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, known to her friends as Reinette. One of the most accomplished women who ever lived". (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"])

Reinette and the Doctor began to form a romantic relationship. She called the Doctor her "lonely angel". Using his Time Lord abilities, the Doctor examined Reinette's mind to look at her past experiences. It was not long before he realised that Reinette was also using this opportunity to gaze within his own mind, witnessing his lonely childhood. When he asked Reinette how she managed that, she said that "a door once opened may be stepped through in either direction." To comfort him, Reinette took him to the Yew Tree ball, telling him that "every lonely little boy must learn to dance". Reinette danced firstly with the Doctor, (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"]) then with the King at the Ball. She soon became his mistress, and the King purchased the marquisate of Pompadour for her. She took up residence at Versailles and befriended the King's wife (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"])

At age 32, Reinette was visited by Rose, who told her the Clockwork Droids would come for her in five years time, on her 37th birthday. After Rose explained the Droids were hunting her throughout her life, trying to find her at age 37, as that was the age of the ship, Reinette followed her onto the ship, and heard her future self's screams. Disturbed, she elected to take "the slow path".

On her 37th birthday, as predicted, the Droids attacked, and Reinette was led to the hall by them. She refused to go with them to their ship, so they decided to take her head there and then. Reinette calmly treated them as her childhood nightmare, knowing "their nightmare" would come for them. The Doctor arrived, smashing threw a time window into the hall. This broke the connection to the ship, and the Droids, having failed, all shut down.

"Leaving Versailles for the last time. Only forty three when she died. Too young". (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"])

When the Doctor was stranded in the 18th century, Reinette sadly showed him that her fireplace still functioned as a way back to the 51st century. The Doctor invited her to travel with him but, due to the time differential, she died before she could do so.

Reinette died on 15 April 1764. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"]) In her final days, she wrote a letter to the Doctor, and after her death, as they watched a black cab take her body from Versailles for the last time, the King gave the Doctor the letter. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"])

Letter to the Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

My dear Doctor: the path has never seemed more slow, and yet I fear I am nearing its end. Reason tells me that you and I are unlikely to meet again, but I think I shall not listen to reason. I have seen the world inside your head and know that all things are possible. Hurry though, my love: my days grow shorter now, and I am so very weak. Godspeed, my lonely angel.Reinette

Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

Her fireplace was later owned by Count Scarlioni in Paris. (PROSE: City of Death [+]Loading...["City of Death (novelisation)"])

In the 51st century, the starship SS Madame de Pompadour was named after her. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"]) Due to the Clockwork Droids scanning her brain, the ship's computer began believing itself to be Reinette. (WC: Pompadour [+]Loading...["Pompadour (webcast)"])

When River Song met the Eighth Doctor's companion Helen Sinclair, she advised Helen to have the Doctor take her to Versailles at some point, but advised her to have him avoid meeting Madame de Pompadour, as it would make things complicated. (AUDIO: The Doomsday Chronometer [+]Loading...["The Doomsday Chronometer (audio story)"])

Reinette was unintentionally referenced by Joan Redfern, when she commented on how John Smith's journal had "a girl in every fireplace". (TV: Human Nature [+]Loading...["Human Nature (TV story)"])

The Eleventh Doctor, stressing the importance of preventing the Sontarans' interference in the timeline, cited Madame de Pompadour as an example of an important person in human history whose existence was endangered. (GAME: Legacy [+]Loading...["Legacy (video game)"])

Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]

In a reality created when the CyberReaper unleashed the Reality Virus, the Tenth Doctor stayed with Reinette and started a family with her. The Thirteenth Doctor was unable to bring herself to destroy the reality, even though it would stop the Cybermen's plans, so a human did so on their own. (GAME: The Edge of Reality [+]Loading...["The Edge of Reality (video game)"])

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

Reinette demonstrated intelligence and an open-minded nature in her thinking, accepting both the futuristic world and the fact of the Doctor being an alien. She also showed amazing courage. Instead of running away, she defied the Clockwork Droids and stood up to them, even at blade-point, insisting that the Doctor would come.

Reinette further had great compassion for the Doctor, pitying him for his loneliness. She was sympathetic after looking into his childhood memories. She and the Doctor shared a strong romantic connection with each other. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"])

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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