Varangot was born in Biarritz in the French Basque Country and was a self-taught golfer, who did not take many lessons and did not practice a lot.

Despite fighting off an attack of tonsillitis, her first victory came in 1963 at Royal County Down Golf Club, Northern Ireland, coincidentally the same venue were her mentor and friend Lally Segard won the same championship in 1950.

Two years later, she won again, this time at St Andrews, Scotland, beating home player Belle Robertson in the final.

Segard was also the non-playing captain of the French team, which consisted of Varangot, Catherine Lacoste and Claudine Cros.

[1] Varangot died at age 67, on 12 October 2007, in Bayonne, close to her birth place in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, in the south-west of France.