Marie Mennessier-Nodier

Marie-Antoinette-Élisabeth Mennessier-Nodier (26 April 1811 – 1 November 1893) was a French musician, poet, and writer, the daughter of Charles Nodier.

Growing up in the company of her father's associates (who included such figures as Victor Hugo) she took to art, music, and literature at a young age.

She played the piano and composed a set of fifteen chansons Mélodies Romantiques (1831).

She contributed a letter from a swallow to a canary raised in a convent as part of the illustrated parody Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux (1842).

As a monarchist, she had a fear of revolutions and was worried for her children during various periods of public unrest.