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Identifier: celebratedmadame00mont (find matches)
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
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othsome dainties whichher great-aunt had prepared for her. As MadameRoyale did not protest, although she was probablyvery hungry, a nun, remarking that the child carefullypicked up and ate all the crumbs of the one briocheshe was allowed to have, immediately cried out thatMadame Royales submission and frugal habits de-noted a vocation, and asked the queen whether shewould permit her daughter to take the veil. I should be much flattered, answered MarieAntoinette. When bidding farewell to her aunt and the othernuns, the queen called Madame Royale and asked herif she had nothing to say to the ladies. Mesdames, replied the little creature with adeep courtesy, * pray for me at Mass, I beg. During the cruel winter of 1783-84, when the kingdistributed in charity three million francs—a meredrop in an ocean of misery—Marie Antoinette gaveher little daughter her first lesson in alms-gfivino-.Everybody knows that New Years Day is the day ofdays in France. Marie Antoinette was in the habit 64
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Copyright byl Madame Royale. From a painting by Greuze. (Braun & Co. A SALUTARY LESSON of sending to Paris a day or two before that fete fornew toys for her little ones. That year Mme Campanransacked all the toyshops in the capital and returnedladen with the most beautiful toys imaginable, whichwere then arranged in the queens boudoir. MarieAntoinette entered leading her children by the hand ;but instead of allowing the little ones to grasp thetreasures, she restrained them, saying :— I should like to have given you these prettythings, but the winter is very severe this year andthere are many, many unhappy creatures who havenothing to eat, no clothes, nor wood to warm them-selves. I have given all my money away in order tohelp them ; I have none left for presents, so youmust do without this year. Mme Campan says that when Marie Antoinettetook the children out of the room they, and especiallyla petite Madame as she was often called, seemed quiteawed by their mothers little sermon

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  • booksubject:Napoleon_I__Emperor_of_the_French__1769_1821
  • booksubject:Nobility
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