Athenais Michelet was the second wife of celebrated writer and French Historian Jules Michelet. Long considered his gifted researcher, scholars later discovered that Athenais was a talented writer who may have written large portions of her husband's later works. Alongside her husband, Athenais climbed treacherous mountains, traversed hot deserts, trekked into hostile forests and explored the world far beyond her home country of France. She had a deeply sensitive view of the natural world. She discovered that Nature was not only the window to the soul of Earth but the window to her own soul. Athenais Michelet is "the spirit, if not the grace, of a very characteristic original," Author, W.H. Davenport Adams."