Charlotte-Adelaïde Dard

Born in 1798 and recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France as Charlotte Dard, she is remembered as a French writer whose best-known work is La Chaumière africaine. Reference sources also describe the book as an autobiographical narrative connected to the aftermath of the wreck of the frigate La Méduse off the West African coast.

Her writing stands out because it brings a personal voice to a famous historical disaster. Rather than telling the story from a distance, she wrote from experience, giving readers a close view of survival, displacement, and family life under extreme conditions.

Dard died in 1862. A suitable verified portrait image could not be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so no profile image is included here.