If you think your life is challenging, just imagine your stepfather is Napoleon Bonaparte? Based on a true story of the French Revolution MADAME CAMPAN'S ACADEMY follows the relationship of Hortense de Beauharnais, her beloved teacher Madame Campan and Hortense's stepfather General Napoleon Bonaparte. Hortense's own father was a victim of the bloody French Revolution. Hers is a Cinderella story of riches to rags to riches as she rises from a penniless seamstress’s apprentice to the Tuileries Palace as stepdaughter to the First Consul of the French Republic. Hortense de Beauharnais realizes her dream of going to school when she is finally enrolled in Madame Campan’s Academy. Madame Campan, a former lady-in-waiting to Queen Marie Antoinette is the best teacher in France. Hortense’s many schoolmates include the horrible Caroline Bonaparte, sister to Napoleon and Eliza Monroe, daughter to James Monroe, a future President of the United States of America. When Hortense’s mother Josephine and Caroline’s brother Napoleon Bonaparte are married, Caroline and Hortense’s relationship is in turmoil. Caroline has a secret and that only Hortense can help her with and Hortense remains hopeful that someday they might be friends. Survival, study, music, art, war and romance fill their days at MADAME CAMPAN’S ACADEMY.