Du Puigaudeau, Odette, 1894-1991

Odette du Puigaudeau was born 1894 in Saint-Nazaire, France, the only child of Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (1864–1930), a painter of the Pont-Aven School, and a mother who was a portrait painter. In 1920, she moved to Paris and took a variety of jobs. Puigaudeau arranged an ethnographic expedition to the Sahara desert and Mauritania, in 1933 and 1934 with her life partner Marion Sénones, painter and contributor to her books. Accompanied by Sénones, Puigaudeau moved to Rabat, Morocco in 1961, where she produced cultural radio programs from 1961 to 1962, and worked at the Ministry of Information in 1963. Puigaudeau died 19 July 1991 in Rabat, Morocco.