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See also:CAMPAN, JEANNE See also:LOUISE HENRIETTE (1752-1822) , See also:French educator, the See also:companion of See also:Marie Antoinette, was See also:born at See also:Paris in 1752. Her See also:father, whose name was' Genest, was first clerk in the See also:foreign See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and, although without See also:fortune, placed her in the most cultivated society. At the See also:age of fifteen she could speak See also:English and See also:Italian, and had gained so high a reputation for her accomplishments as to be appointed reader to the three daughters of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XV. At See also:court she wasa See also:general favourite, and .when she bestowed her See also:hand upon M. Campan, son of the Secretary of the royal See also:cabinet, the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king gave her an See also:annuity of g000 livres as See also:dowry. She was soon' afterwards appointed first See also:lady of the bedchamber by Marie Antoinette; and she continued to be her faithful attendant till she was forcibly separated from her at the sacking of the Tuileries on the loth of See also:June 1792. Madame Campan survived the dangers of the Tetror, but after the 9th See also:Thermidor finding. herself almost penniless, and being thrown on her own resources by the illness of her See also:husband, she bravely determined to support herself by establishing a school at St Germain. The institution prospered, and was patronized by Hortense de See also:Beauharnais, whose See also:influence led to the See also:appointment of Madame Campan as See also:superintendent of the See also:academy founded by See also:Napoleon at Ecouen for the See also:education of the daughters` and sisters of members of the See also:Legion of Honours This See also:post she held till it was abolished at the restoration of the Bourbons, when she retired to Mantes; where she spent the See also:rest of.her See also:life amid the See also:kind attentions of affectionate See also:friends, but saddened by the loss of her only son, and by the calumnies circulated on See also:account of her connexion with the Bonapartes. She died in 1822, leavingvaluable Memoires sur la See also:vie privee de Marie Antoinette, suivis' de souvenirs at anecdotes historiques sueles regnes de Louis XLV.-X V. (Paris, 1823) ; a See also:treatise De l'Educatian `See also:des Femmes; and one or two small didactic See also:works, written in a clear and natural See also:style. The most noteworthy thing in her educational See also:system, and that which especially recommended it to Napoleon, was the placegiven to domestic See also:economy in the education of girls. At fcouen the pupils underwent a See also:complete training in all branches of housework.
See Jules Flammermont, See also:Les Memoires de Madame de Campan (Paris, 1886), and histories of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time.
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