Career
She sat for Vernet for his painting of Judith and Holofernes. Under the Bourbon Restoration, Pélissier had been a notable figure in Parisian society, admired by the Comte de Girardin, holding salons attended by Baron Schikler, and in 1830 having a liaison with Honoré de Balzac. She lived with him at his new house in the Passy suburb, and continued to reside there after his death in 1868.
In fiction, she appears in the 1974 French television film Eugène Sue, played by Claudine Coster.