Marie-Noémi Cadiot (; 12 December 1828, Paris – 10 April 1888,

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), 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

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; 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

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, and had the marriage annulled in 1865. In the late 1850s she had a liaison with architect

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, from which a son was born in 1859 whom she called Louis Vignon. She remarried with politician

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on 3 September 1872. She died on 10 April 1888 in

and was buried at the

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in Paris.

Sculpture

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Cadiot studied sculpture in the workshop of

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. Her creations includes the decoration of the monumental staircase now known as the in

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, completed in 1859; and decorative reliefs added in 1862 or 1863 to the

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in Paris.

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

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), 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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cadiot, Marie-Noemi 1832 births 1888 deaths Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 19th-century French sculptors 19th-century French women artists