. The celebrated Madame Campan, lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette and confidante of Napoleon. Emilie dk Bkauharnais, COiMTliSSE IJE LaVALETTK. EMILIE DE BEAUHARNAIS do better. Who, better than Mme Campan, couldaccomplish such a feat ? It was a sad little Emilie who left home to nestleunder the wing of kind Maman Campan ; there wasnot much love lost between Hortense and Emilie, butMme Campan tried hard to make the little Emilieslife brighter, and well did she succeed. There wasa strange facial resemblance between Eugene deBeauharnais and his cousin, Emilie, which oftenaroused Hortenses hilari
. The celebrated Madame Campan, lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette and confidante of Napoleon. Emilie dk Bkauharnais, COiMTliSSE IJE LaVALETTK. EMILIE DE BEAUHARNAIS do better. Who, better than Mme Campan, couldaccomplish such a feat ? It was a sad little Emilie who left home to nestleunder the wing of kind Maman Campan ; there wasnot much love lost between Hortense and Emilie, butMme Campan tried hard to make the little Emilieslife brighter, and well did she succeed. There wasa strange facial resemblance between Eugene deBeauharnais and his cousin, Emilie, which oftenaroused Hortenses hilarity; history shows that thisresemblance extended to their characters. General Bonaparte was already making ambitiousplans for his relatives. M. Joseph Turquan rightly remarks : There wasnot one of his relatives or connections by marriage,both on his own side and on his wifes side, who didnot have cause to be grateful to him; and it is onlyjust to observe that he did not wait to help them untilhe was asked to do so. At the age of seventeen. Mile Emilie had manyadmirers, but no prospect of fin
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