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Marie-Noémi Cadiot ([kadjo]; 12 December 1828 or 1832, Paris – 10 April 1888, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat) was a French sculptor and writer of the 19th century. She was the second wife of Eliphas Levi and had a daughter with him; they later separated. Cadiot later married the Marquis de Montferrier but separated, and then married Maurice Rouvier on 3 September 1872.
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.
Biography
Cadiot was born in Paris and was the second wife of Alphonse Louis Constant, generally known as Eliphas Levi. They were civilly married at the city hall of the 10th arrondissement of Paris on 13 July 1846 and had a daughter, Mary, who died in 1854 at the age of seven years. Cadiot divorced Constant for the Marquis de Montferrier, the brother-in-law of Messianist philosopher Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński. A pupil of James Pradier, she took part in the work on the reliefs of the Fontaine Saint-Michel, located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.
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 was granted a pension of 6,000 francs by President Napoleon III. Cadiot married Maurice Rouvier on 3 September 1872 and also published under the literary pseudonym of H. Morel. She died on 10 April 1888 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.