1908) was a principal dancer at the Paris Opéra 1864–75 where she often danced en travesti, creating Frantz in Coppélia in 1870, and, renowned for her beauty, was sculpted by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and painted by Degas in a scene from Saint-Léon's ballet La Source.
She was married to Stanislas Le Compasseur de Créqui-Montfort Marquis de Courtivron and mother of explorer, anthropologist, diplomat and Olympian Georges de Crequi-Montfort.
Author: Unknown photographer of the Théâtre Impérial de l'Opéra, Paris. Source: Scanned from the book "Ballet of the Second Empire" by Ivor Forbes Guest. Wesleyan Univiversity Press, 1974. ISBN 0-8195-4067-6. License: CC-PD-Mark PD Old