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Madame Campan's eyewitness account of life in the service of Marie Antoinette makes fascinating reading. She is not entirely uncritical of her royal mistress, but mainly sympathetic towards her, and it is easy to see through her writings that in many respects marie Antoinette was maligned - she was not nearly as extravagent as she has often been accused of being for instance.
27 de set. de 2017 · Henriette Campan aura eu tant de vies...Et pourtant, une femme unique guide les lignes de cette passionnante biographie. Son parcours est d'une grande modernité : par nécessité économique, la jeune femme devient lectrice à la cour de France, avant d'entrer au service particulier de la reine Marie-Antoinette.
19 de dez. de 2017 · En 1786 Henriette Campan est promue première femme de chambre de la Reine, en tout elle passera 22 ans à ses côtés, ses mémoires seront des sources utiles aux historiens sur la vie de la souveraine.Henriette Genet naît à Paris en 1752, elle grandit à Versailles rue Royale, où sa famille s’installe en 1753.
Jeanne-Louise-Henriette, the future Madame Campan, was the eldest daughter of Edme-Jacques Genet, an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His report on the English navy brought him to the attention of the Due de Choiseul, who sent him to London as First Secretary to the Embassy to oversee the peace treaty of 1763.
Sources. Journal anecdotique de Mme Campan, ou sounenirs recueillis de ses entretiens, ed. Maigne (1823); Barrère, Notice sur Madame Campan in the first volume of her memoirs; D'Aubier, Observations sur les mémoires de Mme Campan (Paris, 1823).
Campan, JEANNE-LOUISE-HENRIETTE, nee GENEST (known as MADAME CAMPAN), a French educator, b. November 6, 1752, at Paris; d. in 1822, at Mantes.She was carefully educated under the direction of her father, a head-clerk in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in whose house she met such distinguished men of letters as Duclos, Marmontel, and Thomas.
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette by Henriette Campan (1752 - 1822)Genre(s): MemoirsRead by: Celine Major in EnglishCover design by TriciaG.Parts:Part...
