Marie-Noémi Cadiot

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Not to be confused with Claude Vignon.
Noémi Cadiot in the 1880s

Marie-Noémi Cadiot (French: [kadjo]; 12 December 1828,[1][2] Paris – 10 April 1888, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat), also known as Noémi (or Noémie) Constant and her literary pseudonyms Claude Vignon and H. Morel, was a French sculptor, journalist and writer of the 19th century.

Biography[]

In 1846, while still a minor, Cadiot eloped with Alphonse Louis Constant, better known as occultist Eliphas Levi; her father, a government official, forced Constant to marry her. They had stillborn twins and a daughter, Mary, who died in 1854 at the age of seven years. Cadiot left Constant in the early 1850s for Marquis Alexandre de Montferrier, brother-in-law of Messianist philosopher Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński,[3] 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.[2]

She remarried with politician Maurice Rouvier on 3 September 1872.[4]

She died on 10 April 1888 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat and was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.[5]

Sculpture[]

Arts and Sciences, Cadiot's reliefs in the Louvre Palace's escalier Lefuel
Bust of Jean de La Fontaine (1874), at Château-Thierry City Hall

Cadiot studied sculpture in the workshop of James Pradier.[2] Her creations includes the decoration of the monumental staircase now known as the escalier Lefuel in Napoleon III's Louvre expansion, completed in 1859;[6] and decorative reliefs added in 1862 or 1863 to the Fontaine Saint-Michel in Paris.[7][8]

Literary work[]

She attended the 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.[9]

Cadiot published Contes à faire peur in 1857, Un drame en province - La statue d'Apollon in 1863,[10] Révoltée!,[11] Un naufrage parisien in 1869,[12] Château-Gaillard in 1874,[13] and Victoire Normand in 1862.[14]

References[]

  1. ^ "État-civil reconstitué de Paris, V3E N368". Paris.fr digital archives. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Forum : Noémi Constant, alias Claude Vignon, élève de Pradier". Forum Pradier.
  3. ^ Alphonse-Louis Constant, La Rose Bleue Retrieved May 25, 2009
  4. ^ Revue du Louvre, Volume 28, Conseil des musées nationaux, 1978.
  5. ^ Paul Bauer (2006). Deux siècles d'histoire au Père Lachaise. Mémoire et Documents. p. 771. ISBN 978-2914611480.
  6. ^ Louis Hautecoeur, Louis (1928). Histoire du Louvre: Le Château – Le Palais – Le Musée, des origines à nos jours, 1200–1928 (PDF). Paris: L'Illustration. p. 102.
  7. ^ Eugène de Mirecourt fils, Aux femmes, L. Sauvaitre (Paris), 1895.
  8. ^ Grégoire Alessandri (2012), "La Place Saint-Michel : Une composition monumentale hiérarchisée du Paris haussmannien", Livraisons d'Histoire de l'Architecture, 23: 65-86
  9. ^ Georges d'Heylli (1977). Dictionnaire des pseudonymes Georg Olms Verlag. p. 26. ISBN 9783487063393.
  10. ^ "Un drame en province - La statue d'Apollon". Gallica. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  11. ^ "Révoltée!". Gallica. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  12. ^ "Un naufrage parisien". Gallica. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  13. ^ "Château-Gaillard". Gallica. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  14. ^ "Victoire Normand". Gallica. Retrieved 16 August 2015.

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