Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, volume 1
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, volume 1
Campan Genet
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" The rapid success of the establishment at St. Germain was undoubtedlyowing to the talents, experience, and excellent principles of MadameCampan, seconded by public opinion. All property had changed hands; allranks found themselves confusedly jumbled by the shock of the Revolution:the grand seigneur dined at the table of the opulent contractor; and thewitty and elegant marquise was present at the ball by the side of theclumsy peasant lately grown rich. In the absence of the ancientdistinctions..., elegant manners and polished language now formed a kind ofaristocracy. The house of St. Germain, conducted by a lady who possessedthe deportment and the habits of the best society, was not only a schoolof knowledge, but a school of the world. "A friend of Madame de Beauharnais, " continues Madame Campan, "brought meher daughter Hortense de Beauharnais, and her niece Emilie de Beauharnais. Six months afterwards she came to inform me of her marriage with aCorsican gentleman, who had been brought up in the military school, andwas then a general.
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