Portrait of Madame Campan (1752-1822), seated full-length, in a black dress, with a pupil in oriental costume, by a table with a bust, a landscape beyond

Madam Campan became a tutor of the daughters of Louis XV and by 1774 she was appointed first femme de Chambre of Marie-Antoinette. Her memoirs are invaluable testamonials of the last years at the Bourbon court, and of the everyday life and personality of Marie-Antoinette. Madam Campan later became a director of L'Institution Nationale de Saint-Germain, where she was responsible for the education of aristocratic young ladies; however, with the collapse of the Empire she fell into obscurity and died alone and forgotten in 1822.