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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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replied the man, but she is still at Ver-sailles. She is like a mole; she works underground,but we shall find a way to dig her out! Mme Campan was so shocked by what she heardthat she hurried into the palace as quickly as hertrembling legs could take her. She was crossing theterrace that same afternoon about four oclock in orderto pay^a visit to Madame Addaide, who was stayingat the palace, when she noticed three men standingunder the windows of the Throne-Room. There is the throne, said one of them ; beforevery long people will search in vain for a vestige ofit. Mme Campan waited to hear no more. Shefound Madame Adelaide alone at her work, seatedbehind the canvas blind which was necessary toscreen her from inquisitive visitors from Paris. MmeCampan told her what she had just heard, andbegged her to take a peep at the three men, who werestill standing where she had left them. MadameAdelaide immediately recognized one of the speakersas the marquis de Saint-Huruge, who, she said, had 90
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Copyright by\ Madame Adelaide. From a painting by Nattiei. (Braun & Co. QUEEN LEAVING VERSAILLES a spite against society on account of his having beenimprisoned for some time in the Bastille for a youthfuloffence, and who had sold himself to the due dOrl^ans. Between the months of July and October of 1789the due dOrl^ans made frequent visits to England ;his return to Paris was always marked by populardisturbances, fomented, Mme Campan declares, byEnoflish ofold. On two or three occasions she hadplanned a visit to the capital on business or for herown pleasure, and the queen had begged her topostpone the trip saying :— Do not go up to Paris to-morrow; the Englishhave been scattering their gold about—we shall havetrouble! With a view to calming the populace, the kingdetermined to pay a visit to his good town of Paris—twas but a brief one, however, for he was back atVersailles before midnight. Marie Antoinette nowbegan to make her preparations for leaving Versailles,for she was

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