Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan was a French educator, writer and Lady's maid. In the service of Marie Antoinette before and during the French Revolution, she was afterwards headmistress of the first Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur, appointed by Napoleon in 1807 to promote the education of girls.
Portrait of Henriette Campan by Joseph Boze, 1786
Portrait of Campan and student by Marie-Éléonore Godefroid
Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur
The maisons d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur were the French secondary schools set up by Napoleon and originally meant for the education of girls whose father, grandfather or great-grandfather had been awarded the Légion d'honneur. Access is still by hereditary right.
The Maison d'Éducation de la Légion d'Honneur at Saint-Denis.
The "château d'Écouen"
A view of the school of Saint-Denis, set near the Basilica.
Teachers and pupils of the Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'Honneur de Saint-Denis, 1840s