Melanie Waldor

Melanie Waldor , born Melanie Villenave the June 29th 1796 with Nantes and died with Paris in 1871, is a writer and Poète French.

Girl of lawyer and scholar Villenave, it married under the Restoration, with Nantes, the March 22nd, 1822 François-Joseph Waldor, an officer of Belgian origin . She held a literary living room in her parents, street of Vaugirard with Paris. She became thereafter, in 1827, the mistress of Alexandre Dumas, on which she had a certain influence. Its first test was a historical novel: the Rider of Catch or Oratory of Good-Help (1831), after which it made appear the Book of the young girls (1834). In 1835, it appeared like poet in his Poésies of the heart , remarkable collection of worms by the feeling, the taste and elegance. One still owes him the Abbey of Fontenelle (1839), Alphonse and Juliette (1839), the School of the young girls , drama (1841), Heures of recreation (1836), Pages of the life intimates (1836), the Street with the bears (1837), the Cut of Coral (1842), André Vendean the (1843), the Castle of Ramsberg (1844), the Moneybox of Sleeve-board , comedy-light comedy (1859). André Maurois described it “frail, pretty with cherishing eyes and of the modest mines which throw into a panic”.

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