France, Saint Nazaire, 1894 – Morocco, Rabat, 1991
Daughter of the post-impressionist painter Ferdinand du Puigaudeau and the portrait painter Henriette Van den Broucke. She studied ethnography at the Sorbonne, but not forgetting his artistic education, was also a designer and even a stylist at Jeanne Lanvin. Then, journalist for L’Intransigeant and women's magazines, and finally ethnologist. In 1929, in search of adventure, she was the first woman to embark on the Breton tuna vessels as a journalist.
In 1934, she embarked for Mauritania where she discovered "barefoot and on the back of a camel" with Marion Sénones (1886-1977), the artist painter. This first trip was a revelation, she would later write the book "The Western Road (Morocco-Mauritania)" published in 1945, illustrated by 46 of her photos and drawings of her friend. She settles in Rabat with her friend in 1961, where she hosted radio shows. Then becomes in 1963 documentalist at the Moroccan Ministry of Information, and was appointed head of the prehistory office at the Rabat Antiquities Museum, until 1977.