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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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tersigned by Montmorin,the Foreign Minister, authorizing them to go to Rome,but also a declaration from the Paris municipalitystating that that body was powerless to prevent thesecitoyennes travelling in whatever part of the kingdomthey preferred. While the authorities at Moret werethinking how they could detain the old ladies andtheir suite, some soldiers belonging to the regimentof Haguenau came to their aid, opened the gates ofthe town and enabled them to continue their journey. At Arnay-le-Duc, in the ddpartement of the C6tedOr, Mesdames experienced another alarm; theircarriages were stopped by the municipality and theywere required to alight amid a crowd of inquisitive busy-bodies who were so impressed by the old ladiesstately airs and graces that they all took off their hats.One member of the municipality, however, kept hishat on his head, on noticing which Madame Victoire,realizing that the time for arrogance had passed,bestowed one of her sweetest smiles upon the offender, 124
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Copyright />)) Madame Victoire. From a painting by Guiard. lBra?m &^ Co. MESDAMES ARE DETAINED and, as she prepared to enter the humble inn whereshe was to be kept prisoner for eleven days, said tohim in a tone of supplication :— I pray you. Monsieur, give me your hand to helpme up this dark staircase ! The provinces had still to learn the Parisians easynonchalance towards royalty; the man took off hishat and obeyed Madame Victoire as if he had beenaccustomed to do so all his life. Mesdames immedi-ately wrote off a protest to the Assemblee, which wasduly read and discussed for four hours, the wittyAbbe Maury, among others, taking the fugitivespart. After a member, whose name has not beenhanded down to posterity, had protested: Youpretend that no law exists to prevent aristocratsleaving the country, and I maintain that oneexists — the salvation of the people, Menou,formerly deputy for the nobility of Touraineat the &tats Gkndrattx in 1789, endeavoured byridicule and sarc

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