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LOUISE HENRIETTE See also:CAMPAN (1752-1822)  , See also:French educator, the See also:companion of See also:Marie Antoinette, was See also:born at See also:Paris in 1752 . Her See also:father, whose name was' Genest, was first clerk in the See also:foreign See also:office, and, although without See also:fortune, placed her in the most cultivated society . At the See also:age of fifteen she could speak See also:English and See also:Italian, and had gained so high a reputation for her accomplishments as to be appointed reader to the three daughters of See also:Louis XV . At See also:court she wasa See also:general favourite, and .when she bestowed her See also:hand upon M . See also:Campan, son of the Secretary of the royal See also:cabinet, the See also:king gave her an See also:annuity of g000 livres as See also:dowry . She was soon' afterwards appointed first See also: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 See also:June 1792 . Madame Campan survived the dangers of the Tetror, but after the 9th See also:Thermidor finding. herself almost penniless, and being thrown on her own resources by the illness of her See also:husband, she bravely determined to support herself by establishing a school at St Germain . The institution prospered, and was patronized by Hortense de See also:Beauharnais, whose See also:influence led to the See also:appointment of Madame Campan as See also:superintendent of the See also:academy founded by See also:Napoleon at Ecouen for the See also:education of the daughters` and sisters of members of the See also:Legion of Honours This See also:post she held till it was abolished at the restoration of the Bourbons, when she retired to Mantes; where she spent the See also:rest of.her See also:life amid the See also:kind attentions of affectionate See also:friends, but saddened by the loss of her only son, and by the calumnies circulated on See also:account of her connexion with the Bonapartes . She died in 1822, leavingvaluable Memoires sur la See also:vie privee de Marie Antoinette, suivis' de souvenirs at anecdotes historiques sueles regnes de Louis XLV.-X V . (Paris, 1823) ; a See also:treatise De l'Educatian `See also:des Femmes; and one or two small didactic See also:works, written in a clear and natural See also:style . The most noteworthy thing in her educational See also:system, and that which especially recommended it to Napoleon, was the placegiven to domestic See also:economy in the education of girls . At fcouen the pupils underwent a See also:complete training in all branches of housework .

See Jules Flammermont, See also:

Les Memoires de Madame de Campan (Paris, 1886), and histories of the See also:time .

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