She was selected by Alexandre Dumas fils for the heroine in his play L'Ami des femmes, but the death of her father prevented her from accepting it.
Her London debut, under the name of Lucchesini, was in October 1864, at the Haymarket Theatre in the lead role in Mademoiselle de Belle Isle by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Fanny Kemble.
She did not make a permanent engagement with a theatre; instead in 1870, she established her own "comedy-drama" company, which toured the country, and which sometimes appeared in the summer season in London.
In August 1875 she presented at the Globe Theatre Monsieur Alphonse by Campbell Clarke, adapted from a play by Alexander Dumas fils.
[1] In August 1878 at the Olympic Theatre she played the lead role with her company in The Woman of the People (Marie-Jeanne, ou la femme du peuple by Adolphe d'Ennery and Julien de Mallian), already successfully performed on tour.
Her great kindness of heart, her high sense of justice, her charm of manner, made her a special favourite with everyone with whom she came in contact...."[1] After a requiem mass at the Pro-Cathedral in Kensington, her remains were interred in the family vault at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.