Auffdiener nee Wuiet (Vuyet) de Meonides, Caroline (pseud: Donna Elidora) (fem) 1766-1835 France, Rambouillet - Saint-Claud (insane)
pianist, poet, novelist, studied piano with her father who was organist in Rambouillet and Reims, at the age of five considered a child prodigy, Queen Marie Antoinette granted her a pension for further study, she studied literature with Beaumarchais and Demoustier, painting with Greuze and composition with Andre Gretry, on the outbreak of the Revolution she fled to England, then lived as piano teacher for some time in the Netherlands, after the Revolution she returned to Paris where she formed an intimate friendship with Madame Tallien, was editor of the literary journal Le Phenix, wrote novels and taught music, 1807 she married colonel baron Auffdiener with whom she lived in Lisbon Portugal where she assumed the name Donna Elidora, she divorced and returned to Paris where she was made honorary member of the Academie des Arcades de Rome and was active as writer and music teacher, she spent her last years in an insane asylum in Saint-Claud near Paris for what we would now probably call dementia