Dodik Jégou

Marie-Charlotte Le Berre (14 May 1934 – 2 April 2024), better known by her pen name Dodik Jégou, was a French ceramist, painter and poet.

Jégou founded and directed the .

Biography Born in Quimper on 14 May 1934, Jégou grew up in a family of spinners from the Bigouden region. Her great-grandparents invented the Bigouden picot, which was derived from the Irish picot. Her ancestors embroidered for the likes of the Emperor of Russia. She was the eldest child of , who owned the store À la Ville d'Ys in Quimper. A Breton regionalist, he was a member of the Seiz Breur movement and created the . He would later buy old pieces from Coco Chanel. Her mother, Anne-Marie Kerloc'h, taught her how to be a housewife. In her father's store, she met numerous artists being exhibited, including René-Yves Creston, , , and René Quillivic.

Impassioned with the arts, she entered the École régionale des beaux-arts de Quimper. as well as Mayor René Couanau, 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Camilo José Cela, and Édouard Maunick. She directed the house until August 2014, when it was led by Pascal Verdeau, although she maintained de facto leadership. She was also a co-founder and member of the Maison des métiers d'art français and devoted time in 2008 to saving frescos in association with the Amis du peintre Geoffroy Dauvergne.

Dodik Jégou died in Saint-Malo on 2 April 2024, at the age of 89.

Works Nine ceramic frescos in Ruhr Bibliothèque municipale de Rennes (1989) Inauguration de la Maison des légendes (2001) (2021–2022) Various exhibitions in Barcelona, Brussels, Cannes, Deauville, Florence, Frankfurt, London, Lyon, Munich, Paris, Prague, Thessaloniki, Strasbourg, and Stuttgart

Distinctions Knight of the Ordre des Palmes académiques Order of the Ermine (1997) Goursez Vreizh Medal of the Ville de Saint-Malo (2021)