About Marie-Noémi Cadiot
Lived 1828 – 1888 (aged 59). Marie-Noémi Cadiot was a French sculptor, woman of letters, writer, journalist and painter.
Marie-Noémi Cadiot (; 12 December 1828, and had the marriage annulled in 1865.
In the late 1850s, she had a liaison with architect Hector Lefuel, from which a son was born in 1859, whom she called Louis Vignon.
She remarried to politician Maurice Rouvier on 3 September 1872.
She died on 10 April 1888 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat and was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Sculpture
Cadiot studied sculpture in the workshop of James Pradier. and decorative reliefs added in 1862 or 1863 to the Fontaine Saint-Michel in Paris.
Literary work She attended Mrs Niboyet's Women's Club, and wrote in the Le Tintamarre and Le Moniteur du Soir soaps under the literary pseudonym of Claude Vignon (a character from a novel by Honoré de Balzac), which was formalised in 1866. She also published under the literary pseudonym of H. Morel.
Cadiot published Contes à faire peur in 1857, Un drame en province - La statue d'Apollon in 1863, Révoltée!, Un naufrage parisien in 1869, Château-Gaillard in 1874, and Victoire Normand in 1862.
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French writer (1828–1888)
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Marie-Noémi Cadiot was born on 12 December 1828 in Paris.
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Marie-Noémi Cadiot died on 10 April 1888 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Nice.
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Marie-Noémi Cadiot was a sculptor, woman of letters, writer, journalist and painter.
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