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Elodie La Villette (1848 – 1917) was a French painter of coastal scenes.

Life
She was born Louise Madeleine Elodie Jacquier in Strasbourg in 1848.

Both she and her sister Caroline (later Caroline Espinet) began their artistic education with Ernest Coroller in Lorient. She continued her training in Strasbourg and with Dubois at Arras.

Her seascapes often depict the coast Brittany, particular the Lorient area and the  Quiberon peninsula. A description of a painting shown in 1897 in read"The 'Seaweeds,' of Madame Elodie La Villette, belong to Brittany, to the coast of Port-Ivy-Quiberon. On that savage shore, at low tide, the sea uncovers rocks covered with red seaweed. They push far out into the waters, seeming to protect the Breton shore, itself already so austère, against strange vessels. In the distance, a ray of sunlight casts a silver streak upon the tranquil water. This is an effect of light that Madame Elodie La Villette knows how to treat with surety." >

She exhibited at the Paris Salon between 1870 and 1914, and at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition.

She married Colonel Jules La Villette.

She died at Pontivy in 1917.

Raphael Brandon buildings
Other eccclesiastical work:
 * Holy Trinity Leverstock Green.
 * Christ Church, Chesham.
 * St Mary, Humberstone, Leicestershire.
 * St Andrew, Wraysbury.
 * All Saints, Harston, Cambridgeshire. Chancel.1853-4.
 * Holy Trinity, Stow Bardolph, Norfolk. A description of Brandon's work there was published in the Gentleman's Magazine in October 1852.
 * St Andrew, Ham. Rose Window
 * St Bene't, Cambridge. New North aisle.
 * Sculthorpe, Norfolk. New Chancel.
 * Aughnamullen.1847 Extensive rebuilding of a church of c.1820. Much rebuilt in the 1860s, but Brandon's north aisle survives.
 * St Mary, Datchet. rebuilding in stages from 1857.
 * Holy Trinity, Townshend Road, Richmond.


 * Clocktower, Queen's College< Cambridge. Demolished 1910.