CAMPAN, JEANNE LOUISE HENRIETTE (1752-1822)

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CAMPAN, JEANNE LOUISE HENRIETTE (1752-1822) , French educator, the companion of Marie Antoinette, was born at Paris in 1752. Her father, whose name was' Genest, was first clerk in the foreign office, and, although without fortune, placed her in the most cultivated society. At the age of fifteen she could speak English and Italian, and had gained so high a reputation for her accomplishments as to be appointed reader to the three daughters of Louis XV. At

court

she wasa general favourite, and .when she bestowed her hand upon M.

Campan

CAMPAN, JEANNE LOUISE HENRIETTE (1752-1822)

, son of the Secretary of the royal cabinet, the king gave her an

annuity

ANNUITY (from Lat. annus, a year)

of g000 livres as dowry. She was soon' afterwards appointed first lady of the bedchamber by Marie Antoinette; and she continued to be her faithful attendant till she was forcibly separated from her at the sacking of the Tuileries on the loth of June 1792. Madame

Campan

CAMPAN, JEANNE LOUISE HENRIETTE (1752-1822)

survived the dangers of the Tetror, but after the 9th Thermidor finding. herself almost penniless, and being thrown on her own resources by the illness of her husband, she bravely determined to support herself by establishing a school at St Germain. The institution prospered, and was patronized by Hortense de Beauharnais, whose influence led to the appointment of Madame Campan as superintendent of the

academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

founded by

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

at Ecouen for the education of the daughters` and sisters of members of the Legion of Honours This post she held till it was abolished at the restoration of the Bourbons, when she retired to Mantes; where she spent the rest of.her

life

LIFE

amid the kind attentions of affectionate friends, but saddened by the loss of her only son, and by the calumnies circulated on account of her connexion with the Bonapartes. She died in 1822, leavingvaluable Memoires sur la vie privee de Marie Antoinette, suivis' de souvenirs at anecdotes historiques sueles regnes de Louis XLV.-X V. (Paris, 1823) ; a treatise De l'Educatian `des Femmes; and one or two small didactic works, written in a clear and natural style. The most noteworthy thing in her educational

system

SYSTEM

, and that which especially recommended it to

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

, was the placegiven to domestic

economy

ECONOMY

in the education of girls. At fcouen the pupils underwent a complete training in all branches of housework.
See Jules Flammermont, Les Memoires de Madame de Campan (Paris, 1886), and histories of the time.

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