Patrizia Ames

Mélanie Waldor, born Melanie Villenave on June 29, 1796 and died in 1871, is a French writer and poet. The daughter of lawyer and scholar Guillaume Villenave, she married in Nantes on March 22, 1822 Francis Joseph Waldor, an officer of Belgian origin. She held literary salons at her parents, rue de Vaugirard in Paris. She later became the mistress of Alexandre Dumas, on whom she had some influence. Andre Maurois described her as "frail, pretty with soft eyes and modest mines that drive crazy." She left love poems (Poems of the heart), including one known “Dors à mes pieds..”