When
Yves-Lecoquierre Duboys La Vigerie
attended high school at the Lycée
Clemenceau Nantes,
he became very popular by doing intimations of some of his fellow
students and teachers. His talent for mimicry prompted him turn
his talent into a career. To prove that he also had a great sense of
humor, he
shortened his name to Yves Lecoq.
Yves began his career doing celebrity imitations and working with
puppets. His repertoire includes over 120 imitations
including Jacques Chirac, Nicolas
Sarkozy, .and Barrack Obama. Yves also
launched a successful singing career and has several hit recordings in
France including one gold record. for his duet with with
Sophie Darel, called "The Giscardéon."
He soon began hosting TV shows including
Follow
Lecoq.and
The Great Laughter.
In November 2008 he launched a new show
at the Cirque d'Hive.
His career allowed Yves to indulge in his primary passion - castle
collecting . He currently owns
three
castles, one of Villiers-le-Bade, where he
lives near Paris, the Chateau de Maisonseule in the Ardeche, and its
latest acquisition, a castle in the Vendée, But his passion for castles
created a problem for him when he purchased one in Tunisia where he
often vacationed that was owned by the son-in-law of the former
Tunisia president Zine El
Abidine Ben Ali. However, when he tried to take possession of the
property after
the fall of the Ben Ali
regime ,
the police stopped him, and told him that his papers were forged, and
prevented him from taking occupancy.
To help get over his heartbreak of the loss of his Tunisian marble
covered palace, we suggest inviting Yves over for dinner on
his birthday and serving him the eponymous French classic Coq au Vin
while watching him in the French TV film
Embrasse-moi vite! (1993).