# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-versfelt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:13:45.969Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-versfelt"
name: "Maria Versfelt"
slug: "maria-versfelt"
description: "Maria Johanna Elselina Versfelt, also known as Ida Saint-Elme, Elzelina van Aylde Jonghe, and by her pseudonym La Contemporaine, was a Dutch courtesan and author celebrated for her tumultuous life alongside French generals of Grande Armée. Her travels through Italy, Egypt and the Mediterranean are chronicled in her highly popular yet largely fictitious and unreliable memoirs. Additionally, she is credited with \"possibly the earliest satirical magazine produced by a woman.\""
tagline: "Dutch writer and actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ide_de_saint_elme.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1776-09-27"
deathDate: "1845-05-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.752665333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Versfelt"
    title: "Maria Versfelt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Saint-Elme"
    title: "Ida Saint-Elme"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Versfelt"
    title: "Maria Versfelt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Saint-Elme"
    title: "Ida Saint-Elme"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Versfelt"
    title: "Maria Versfelt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elselina_Versfelt"
    title: "Elselina Versfelt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82-%D0%AD%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%2C_%D0%98%D0%B4%D0%B0"
    title: "Сент-Эльм, Ида"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273865"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump