1825 Journal Anecdotique de Madame Campan; Ou, Conversations Recueillies dans ses Entretiens

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First Edition, Leather Binding, Rebound

The first edition of this work. In the original French. The journals of Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan. Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan, born Henriette Genet was a French educator and lady-in-waiting to Queen Marie Antoinette before and during the French Revolution. At the age of fifteen she could speak English and Italian, and had gained so high a reputation for her accomplishments as to be appointed reader to the three daughters of Louis XV. At court she was a general favourite, and was appointed first lady of the bedchamber by Marie Antoinette. She continued to be her faithful attendant until she was forcibly separated from her at the storming of the Tuileries on 10 August 1792. Madame Campan survived the dangers of the Terror and started a school, dying in 1822.