Maria Johanna Elselina VERSFELT (27 September 1776 – 19 May 1845), also known as Ida Saint-Elme, Elzelina av Aylde Jonghe, and by her pseudonym "La Contemporaine", was a Dutch writer and stage actress, known for her adventurous life. Daughter of a pastor, she married in 1792, but left the Netherlands after the French conquest to follow her lovers in their military campaigns. Thus running the Napoleonic battlefields, she became the mistress of many French officers, like General MOREAU of which she was almost the wife, or Marshal NEY. From 1801, she embarked on an unsuccessful career as an actress, and traveled to Italy, Egypt, Germany and Russia. She became famous when she published her memories in 1827 under the title of "Mémoires d'une Contemporaine", which caused scandal and met with tremendous success. They earned her the nickname "Female Casanova" or "Widow of the Grand Army". Published by the famous publisher Ladvocat, the memories were suspected of having been arranged by a few men of letters. They constitute nevertheless one of the rare female testimonies on this time, and relate in a picturesque way the mores of the Directory, the Consulate and the Empire. She died in misery, at the Ursulines hospice in Brussels, in 1845, at the age of 67.