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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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felt was bound to come,sooner or later; guns and ammunition were storedin the lower rooms, while from all sides royalistsrallied round the king with protestations of fidelity.The king received many offers of money about thistime; these offers, as the king did not wish to im-poverish his subjects, he refused. M. Auguie, Mme Campans brother-in-law, senthis wife to the king with a pocket-book containing100,000 ^cus, which she begged the king on her kneesto accept. The queen, who was present at thisinterview, strove to console her servant for the kingsrefusal by telling her that she valued the thought evenmore than the deed. In the beginning of August, Mme Campan receiveda visit from M. de La Ferte, the kings steward, whobrought with him the sum of 1000 livres, which hebesought her to give to the queen. However, thelatter refused this offer like all the others she receivedabout this time. A few days later, Mme Campan was surprised tohear the queen remark that she had decided to accept 160
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Copyrig-ht\by) Madame Elisabeth. From a painting by Le Brun. (Braun 6^ Co. THE MAYOR OF PARIS part of M. de La Fertds offer, as Mme Elisabeth haddiscovered a man who had undertaken to purchasePetions goodwill; in fact, the matter was already sofar advanced that the price had been fixed—124,000francs—and the mayor of Paris had promised to let theking know by signs if his plans succeeded. MmeCampan was instructed to accept 24,000 francs fromM. de La Fert^, and to add to this sum the 100,000francs which the queen had entrusted to her care in theprevious month ; the money was then to be changedinto assignats in order to increase the value—thosemuch-blamed assignats which, according to M. ErnestHamel, saved France from bankruptcy, helped herto triumph over the whole of Europe, and only fellinto disgrace when the Revolution began to bethreatened by the reaction. It was arranged that the king was to meet Petion.Mme Campan does not give the date of the interview,but it probably took pla

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