Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Genest Campan

Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Genest Campan (born Nov. 6, 1752, Paris—died March 16, 1822, Mantes, Fr.) was a preeminent educator of Napoleonic France and champion of a broader curriculum for women students. Madame Campan served as lady-in-waiting to Marie-Antoinette from 1774 to 1792. But it was her friendship with Napoleon and especially her reputation as a teacher and head of the Institut in Saint-Germain that moved Napoleon to appoint her director of the school founded in 1806 at...