Our Story

Where I come from...

To make a long, long “Story” very, very short...

A very happy morning was the morning of December 8,1958, in Neuilly on the Seine(near Paris), when the second child of Pierre Le Petit, a archeologist, came to live among us. The child's mother, Catherine, of Luxembourg, an artist-painter, her face radiating happiness. When Denise grew to school age, she embraced her favorite subjects, history, drawing...
She particularly liked the history of the Middle Ages with its endless sagas of knights and chivalry,which became a wellspring of thought and fantasy that
she would carry with her into her adult life, and later into her art (...heart).
At age seven, her parents newly-divorced, Denise moved with her mother and younger brother Federick, to Saint Tropez, a coastal village on the French Riviera. Denise was enthralled with the rich and fascinating history of the village.
In the year 435 A.D., the Romans emperor, Nero,had ordered the beheading of Captain Torpez, a preacher of the new religion. Nero launched a small boat, a dog at the rear, a rooster at its prow. In between them lay Captain Torpez's body holding in his hands his fallen head. Upon arriving. The story tell us, a woman walking on the beach, found the boat ...
She buried him on the spot, and the place name became "Saint Tropez".
The dog walked further and where he stopped, the place was named Grimaud. The rooster flew deeper in the land to a place call now Cogolin. This event is memorialized each May 15th in a celebration called the "Bravade", during which the streets of Saint Tropez are transformed into a great parade and the residents dance in procession in traditional costumes through the village for three days and nights...
The Bravade provided a source of enchantment to Denise, who, pencil and notebook in hand, would sketch the procession.
Saint Tropez proved a childhood paradise for a
youngster fascinated by the History and the Mythology of Europe in
the Middle Ages. Strategically located and surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea, Saint Tropez in the Middle Ages was reputedly a center of commerce, religious tolerance and political refuge. The story of Saint Tropez with its knights , hidden treasures, castles and underground passages, became intertwined with Denise's intellectual and moral development and later to her artistic expression.
Like a stray knight,Denise has traveled extensively to locations throughout Europe and across the world, including China, Japan, Tunisia, Morocco, Israel, and the
Ivory Coast. Employing a paintbrush as her sword and a palette as her shield, Denise tries to capture on canvas that innocent child-like place deep inside each of us, far from the trappings of the material world, where innocence and virtue, chivalry and romance, dreams and magic all coexist. Denise is extremely proud that, upon announcing her plan to travel to the
United States, her elderly and beloved Grandmother presented her with a book of her family's genealogy and her family crest. The crest has since appeared as her trademark on all of her paintings, photographs and her other works.

Since 1440, De Pomey Family own the crest, ancestor of D.C. LePetit Bresemann

D. C. Le Petit Bresemann

Artist Photographer , Author of the Books

Owner of

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