Madeleine Deslandes

Baronne Madeleine Annette Edmé Angélique Vivier-Deslandes (16 April 1866 – 2 March 1929) was a French writer associated with the English Pre-Raphaelites.

[1] Deslandes travelled to England in 1893 to meet Burne-Jones in preparation for an article that she was writing about him for Le Figaro.

According to Emily Wubben, Deslandes "pursued a glittering social life in Parisian literary and artistic circles.

She was celebrated as a hostess of a cultured salon that attracted the presence of renowned artists, poets and composers.

"[3] She once entered a lion's cage at a fair and recited poetry by Jean Richepin.