a small town of France, department of Hautes Pyrénées, arrondissement of Bagnères-en-Bigorre. It is pleasantly situated in a fine valley on the left bank of the Adour, 16 miles S.S.E. of Tarbes. The town is well laid out, and the houses, which are neat and clean, are mostly built of marble from the neighbouring quarries. Pop. 3500.

Madame (née Genet), was married to M. Campan in 1770, soon after which she was appointed first lady of the bed-chamber to the dauphiness Marie Antoinette. She remained at court until the revolution, but was not permitted to accompany her unfortunate mistress to prison. She then supported herself by setting up a boarding school at Germain-en-laye. When Napoleon, in 1806, founded the establishment for the daughters and families of members of the Legion of Honour, the elegant manners and character of Madame Campan pointed her out as a fit superintendent of that institution, an office which she filled with credit to herself, till the overthrow of the emperor and the restoration of the Bourbons caused the suppression of the establishment at Ecouen. Madame Campan then retired to Mantes, where she wrote a very agreeable book, "Mémoires sur la Vie Privée de Marie Antoinette Reine de France." It was published some time before the death of the author, which happened in 1822.