. The life of James Monroe. trees alongwhich they were then walking. 1 In December, 1801, General Claude Perrin Victor, Duke of Bellino (1764-1841),who was to have commanded for Napoleon at New Orleans, brought his little daugh-ter Victorine to study with Mme. Campan. Among her fellow pupils, saysViolette M. Montagu in The Celebrated Mme. Campan, were Nelly Bourjolie(later maid-of-honor to Stephanie de Beauharnais, when the latter becamegrand-duchess of Baden); Antoinette de Mackau (later Mme. Wathier de Saint-Alphonse); Eliza Monroe, the daughter of the originator of the celebrated Monroedoct
. The life of James Monroe. trees alongwhich they were then walking. 1 In December, 1801, General Claude Perrin Victor, Duke of Bellino (1764-1841),who was to have commanded for Napoleon at New Orleans, brought his little daugh-ter Victorine to study with Mme. Campan. Among her fellow pupils, saysViolette M. Montagu in The Celebrated Mme. Campan, were Nelly Bourjolie(later maid-of-honor to Stephanie de Beauharnais, when the latter becamegrand-duchess of Baden); Antoinette de Mackau (later Mme. Wathier de Saint-Alphonse); Eliza Monroe, the daughter of the originator of the celebrated Monroedoctrine, a great friend of Miss Paterson, Jerome Bonapartes first wife, and oneof Mme. Campans most grateful pupils; Mile. Hervas de Menara, the daughterof the rich banker of that name, and at that time the prettiest little creature w ever been confided to my care; she is witty, sensible and good natured. Mile,de Menara married Duroc; (Hortenses first love, and perhaps the only man forwhom Hortense ever really cared).. Madame Jeanne Louise Henriette Genest Campan From a life-sized oil painting, executed on Napoleons order, by Baron Francois Pascal Gfaardand presented to the Monroe family, in whose possession it remamcd for more than a hundred »i—^...,-nn1,or1 from the original. THE LIFE OF JAMES MONROE 257 Thats true, replied Mr. Monroe; our country may be likenedto a new house, we lack many things, but we possess the mostprecious of all — liberty! In the heyday of Napoleons regime Madame Campanwas appointed directress of the Imperial EducationalEstablishment of the Legion of Honor at quicker to praise than to blame was her Ecouenmotto. She wrote De VEducation. Hortense de Beau-harnais married Louis Bonaparte, and became themother of Napoleon III. She was fond of her formerschool friends but some of them expected her to dotoo much for them; great was Eliza Monroes disap-pointment when she discovered that Hortense couldnot get her an invitation to the
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