[2] She attended the Lycée Jules-Ferry in Paris, and later the Pierre and Marie Curie University.

[2] Her master's degree thesis was entitled Sous les courbes fermées convexes du plan et le théorème des quatre sommets (Under closed convex curves in the plane and the theorem of four peaks).

[3] Whilst working in Paris in the late 1960s she was advised by René Thom, Henri Cartan and Paulette Liberman.

[7] In 1986, she wrote a humorous 24 page mathematical comic book Yao crack en maths.

[7] She is an officer of the Ivorian Order of Merit of National Education, and the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques.