Born Jacques Charles Dufresnoy, the career of Coccinelle
began around 1953 when she made her debut at the famous Paris female
impersonation club Madame Arthur’s. Just as Christine Jorgensen had her sexual
reassignment surgery in Denmark and came back to the United States in 1953 a
celebrity, when Coccinelle received her surgery in Casablanca and returned to
France in 1958, she was a media sensation. While Jorgensen entered the speaking
engagement and nightclub circuit, Coccinelle instead became a sex symbol, in
the style of Brigitte Bardot. She was famous for her engagements at Le Carrousel, in Paris. During the 1960’s she
appeared in two films and released several recordings. She maintained her
celebrity all of her life, and died in 2006, at age 75. In 2004 a CD collection
of her singing was released, called “Chercher la Femme.”
Above, a bit of sexploitation
Below, her 2004 CD
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