Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan

He lost by the birth of the Princess, and had executed in porcelain a figure with one knee bent on the earth, and presenting tablets, upon which the following lines by Metastasio were engraved:

I lose by your fair daughter's birth

Who prophesied a son;
But if she share her mother's worth,
Why, all the world has won!

Friendship and the tenderest cares succeeded for a moment in calming her grief, but not in diminishing its power.