Campau, JEANNE LOUISE HENRIETTE

Campau, JEANNE LOUISE HENRIETTE, born in Paris, October 6, 1752, from 1770 till 1792 was Marie Antoinette's confidant, and during the Reign of Terror withdrew to the valley of Chevreuse, beyond Versailles. After the fall of Robespierre she opened a boarding-school at St Germain-en-Laye; and in 1806 she was appointed by Napoleon head of the Institution at Ecouen for the education of the daughters of the officers of the Legion of Honour. At the Restoration this institution was suppressed, and Madame Campau retired to Mantes, where she died, May 16, 1822. She is chiefly remembered on account of her Mémoires sur la Vie Privée de la Reine Marie Antoinette (1823), Journal Anecdotique (1824), and Correspondance Inédite avec la Reine Hortense (1835). See works on her by Flammermont (1886) and Carette (1891).