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Jacqueline Benoit was born in 1928. In 1964 her path coincided with that of Lo Duca, author of a book and a film about customs officer Rousseau. He considers her painting very interesting and introduces her to the art critic Anatole Jakovsky. She is very quickly regarded as "one of the most important Naïfs since Rousseau." Praised by both Parisian experts, exhibitions follow, and in 1975, the Old Castle Museum in Laval granted her a major retrospective for three months, with 83 paintings presented. "She lives and paints in Orleans. (https://figurationfeminine.blogspot.nl/2009/06/jacqueline-benoit-1928.html) undefined