Her passion for Shakespeare and for the Middle Ages gained expression in her paintings which often show women dressed or positioned in ways that evoke medieval themes.

She was the daughter of Giuditta Clelia Casali and Louis Hector Leroux (1829–1900), a successful French painter.

[2] Her parents met when her maternal grandfather was the doctor who treated her father for wounds he received when serving in the Francs-tireurs de la Seine in the Battle of Buzenval, where his leg was broken by a projectile.

Underappreciated, one observer of her work called her an artist "passed over by posterity,"[1] with her career often linked to her father, male mentors, or later husband, the politician Louis Revault, who spent part of his early career in Brazil and who established a chocolate factory upon returning to France.

[5] The Musée des Beaux-Arts of Nancy displays one of her major works, Anne et Jehanne (1894) which reflects her interest in the Middle Ages.