[1][2] She lived near Dinan for many years and wrote about Breton folklore in local newspapers.
[1] Her book Contes et légendes de Bretagne (1856-1898) was published in 1899 (helped by François Duine [fr]) and reprinted several times, including in 1995.
[3] Her 1861 work Saint-Suliac et ses traditions : contes et légendes d'Ille-et-Vilaine was reprinted in 1987.
[4] The Breton folklorist Paul Sébillot is said to have called her "la doyenne du folklore français".
[1] She was a proponent of the theory that Napoleon was not born in Corsica but in Brittany, where he was allegedly baptised in the church of Sainte-Sève.