Cora Millet-Robinet

She was the author of a highly popular handbook of farming, household management and cookery, known in English as The French Country Housewife.

Dispossessed as a result of the Haitian revolution, they moved to Paris where Cora Robinet, their first daughter, was born.

In 1823 she married her mother's brother, lieutenant-colonel François Millet who, likewise born in Saint-Domingue, had recently been widowed and had come to live with his sister's family in Paris.

[4] Her popular books focus on children, on women's education, and on the work typically done by 19th century farmers' wives: the kitchen and household, the management of servants, the farmyard or basse-cour with its poultry, the keeping of pigeons and rabbits.

In 1847/1849, François and Cora sold La Cataudière and bought the partly ruined Domaine de Pont near Genillé, which they restored and extended.