Dominique is desperately looking for a contact to offer the bust of Guillaume Seznec to his grandson

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Dominique Dutoo is originally from Tourcoing (59) but lives in the region of Paimpol (Côtes-d’Armor) for around twenty years.

In memory of Vincent, her sculptor son, who died suddenly, she is looking for un contact to offer a work by Vincent to Denis Seznecgrandson of Guillaume Seznec.

“Vincent,” says Dominique Dutoo, “died suddenly in 2019. With my other son, Florent, and my daughter Agathe, we are his heirs.”

This is how Dominique became the owner of the work of her eldest son, a sculptor and visual artist in Saint-Pierre-Des-Corps, near Tours (37).

Vincent was very interested in Brittany and was passionate about the Seznec affair. It was in these circumstances that he sculpted a bust of Guillaume Seznec. In 2007, he had the opportunity to meet Denis Le Her-Seznec, the convict's grandson, and presented his work to him. He found it very similar and was moved.

Sold to Denis Langlois

This bust had been sold at the time and Vincent Guderzo, Dominique's son, had offered part of the proceeds from the sale to “France Liberté”, an association created by Denis Langlois, the emblematic lawyer of the Seznec family.

And, very quickly, he had sculpted a second bust.

It is this sculpture that Dominique, Florent and Agathe wish to offer to the Seznec family, and in particular to Denis.

But the latter, very affected by the rejection of the last appeals concerning his grandfather's trialwho remains, in the eyes of justice, guilty of the death of Pierre Quéméneur in 1923, is now very much in the background.

“I tried everything,” laments Dominique Dutoo, “to obtain contact with him. By going through the press, I hope to be able to reach him to be able to give him this bust that belongs to him. And so pay tribute to my son. »

François Cabioc'h, local correspondent

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