Felieie De Faitveau, a French sculptress, born in Florence in 1803. She belongs to an old legitimist family of Brittany, and was patronized by Louis XVIII. and Charles X. She i partook in 1832 in the royalist movement in La Vend6e, and on the arrest of the duchess de Berri escaped to Brussels, and then to Florence. Her group of "The Abbot11 (1827) illustrates one of Walter Scott's romances, and her most successful work represents Christina and Monaldeschi (1829). In 1842 she exhibited in Paris various works, including Judith showing the Head of Holophernes to the People." Prominent among her later works are the Dante monument (1852), representing the tragic death of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini, and the mausoleum of a young Florentine girl (1860).