Alexandrine-Jeanne Le Normant d’Étiolles (10 August 1744 – 15 June 1754) was the daughter of Madame de Pompadour, the maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France.

[5] After being weaned, she continued to be raised by a nurse and other domestic staff, but regularly spent time in her mother’s apartments or visited her maternal grandfather, François Poisson, who loved her affectionately.

[8] Her education was supervised by the novelist Claud Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, her mother’s friend and former teacher.

[9] At the age of six, Alexandrine was placed at the Convent of the Assumption in the rue Saint-Honoré in Paris, where many daughters of the aristocracy were raised, in order to prepare her for a career at court.

Madame de Pompadour was worried to leave her child in Paris but considered convent schooling important for her later success.

He argued that the imperial court (headed by Empress Maria Theresa) would never agree to one of the Emperor’s relatives marrying a girl of middle-class origins,[11] although this was probably an excuse for her own unwillingness.

The nuns informed her parents; most biographies state that her father rushed to her, although Margaret Crosland clams there is no proof of this.

[15] Pevitt says that Pompadour was at the Château de Choisy with the King and could not leave to see her daughter,[4] while Crosland claims that she was not at court and could not be reached in time.

Louis XV sent his own physicians, Jean-Baptiste Sénac and Germain Pichault de La Martinière [fr] but Alexandrine had died by the time they arrived.

Six weeks later, a contemporary reported that she acted happy, not displaying her grief over her daughter’s death, as that would have ‘done harm to her looks’ and endangered her position as maîtresse-en-titre.

The vault was damaged during the Revolution and the surrounding buildings rebuilt, inhibiting access to the tomb which, as of 2024, is under the rue de la Paix in Paris.