Another family member, Jean Daniel Pinet de Borde-Desforêts (1742–1801) was a brigadier general and knight.

Her father was a cavalry captain and she spent the first part of her life at the Château de Fontorte, near Gannat, in south-east Allier.

Starting from Bucharest, Romania, the two women reached Monaco after a journey of 3,772 kilometres (2,344 mi) and many adventures, recounted in a travel diary kept and illustrated by des Forest.

[5] Driving again with Siko in 1937, as well as with Hellé Nice and Claire Descollas, she carried out speed tests from 19 to 29 May on the Autodrome de Montlhéry, with Yacco [fr] motor oils as sponsor.

Under the leadership of Odette Siko, and despite the reported hostility of des Forest and Descollas towards Nice,[6] the quartet broke 25 world records, some of which still stand today.

[9][10] The short version of this expression was greatly popularized by the TV game show Intervilles, broadcast on RTF from 1962.

Guy Lux and Léon Zitrone, two famous presenters of the time, hosted the show, each more or less faithfully defending the colors of the two towns that competed against each other in various events.