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in 1961, where she produced cultural radio programs from 1961 to 1962, and worked at the
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Western Sahara twice more, once between 1936 and 1938, and again in 1950 and 1951. Her second trip took a year to finish the "6,500 kilometers across the tracks of southern
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Jacques-Meunié, D. (1959). "Quelques gravures et peintures rupestres de la
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Following her passion for travel, Puigaudeau became one of the first women to live aboard on a Breton tuna vessel in 1929. She described life in the Breton islands at that time in her book
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In Paris, Puigaudeau founded the French Women's
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Vérité, Monique. "De la Bretagne à la Mauritanie : Biographie d'Odette du Puigaudeau | Bérose" (in French).
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For each of her trips, Puigaudeau arranged support and funding from several French institutions, including the
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Puigaudeau arranged an ethnographic expedition to the Sahara desert and, more specifically, to
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