[12] In 1954, Valentine Schlegel worked as artistic director in La Pointe Courte,[13][14] Agnès Varda’s first feature film.

[4] In 1945 she moved to Paris, to Vavin street, where she discovered ceramics and sculpture with Frédérique Bourguet, a friend from the Fine Arts School.

[4] During the 1950s, Valentine Schlegel travelled to Portugal, where she discovered Portuguese clay modelling that inspired her to make and collect nativity scene figurines.

[4] While in Sète, she would meet with friends to do wood and leather work, making new handbags, shoes, and kitchen utensils, and they would even sometimes do bed linen embroidery.

[4] Commissioned by the architect Alain Pati, she worked at the foyer of a building in Courbevoie, where she designed the ceiling and carpentry while painters Denise Voïta and Jean-Loup Ricur painted the wall mosaics.

[4] Her home became her canvas and the place was recently emptied and sold at auction, with the hope to restore it and one day open it to the public.

[18][8] In 1984, she made a bronze statue in homage to her brother-in-law Jean Vilar, which was displayed in Chaillot National Theatre, Paris; and a terracotta bust for the Paul Valéry Museum in Sète.

[12] She started teaching in the Lycée de Sèvres, but by 1958 she had founded the clay modelling department for workshops for young people under 15 at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris.