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Title: The celebrated Madame Campan, lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette and confidante of Napoleon
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Montagu, Violette M
Subjects: Campan, Mme (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette), 1752-1822 Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Nobility
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company London, E. Nash
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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<5ld cake-woman, createdquite a furore with her lively repartees. The twolittle Talon girls had been brought to Mme Campansoon after she opened her establishment by the comtede Scepeaux, at that time an officer in La Vendee, beg-ging her to take care of the children, whose father wasimprisoned in the Temple and their mother in hiding. A letter from Mme Campan dated March 7 of thissame year gives us a peep into those days of stiffceremony and company manners, when any attempt toshow the natural feelings in company was considereddu plus mauvais ton :— Embrace my dear Caroline (Murat) very tenderlyforme, she writes to Hortense ; tell her that, as herformer governess, I beg of her not to give visibletokens of affection to her dear husband when shegoes to the play with him; she is severely criticizedon this point, nay, more! she is blamed. We owegreat respect to the public; by acting thus sheoffends public morality ; for if a young wife does not ^ A fashionable professor of singing224
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Caroline Bonaparte,with her daughter marie. Fioin a painting by L,e Brun, MAMAN CAMPAN GIVES GOOD ADVICE behave with reserve towards her husband, anotherwoman may take liberties with her lover—and thenwhat would become of the theatre and other publicassemblies ? Moreover, all eyes are fixed upon theBonaparte family, and you are ever before the public.Would you believe that people blame me when mypupils are guilty of small faults? Be sure to tellCaroline that I only give her this advice because Itake an interest in her; I shall always look upon youand her as my daughters. ... Mme Campan, knowing that Hortense couldneither ask for, nor receive, good advice from hermother—for Josephine was one of those women whosechief object in life is to get on in the world and to beamused—wrote the following letter to her belovedpupil, hoping thereby to save her from imitating hermothers example:— To Mile Eugdnie^ de Beauharnais at the Tuileries. 8 germinal, an viii. You are now, my dear Horte

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