Alice PASCO, born in FAVEN in Saint-Gérand on April 12, 1926 and died in Pontivy on July 8, 2013, she is a French painter and writer. She is the daughter of Jean PASCO, a building entrepreneur who had served in colonial engineering in Tunisia, Morocco and Ivory Coast under the orders of LYAUTEY. Her family moved to Pontivy where she studied. She began to paint in 1940 and her parents enrolled her at the school of fine arts in Rennes, then she went to Paris to perfect her skills at the École des beaux-arts de Paris from 1945 to 1948 in the workshops of Pierre-Henri DUCOS de La HAILLE (1889-1972) and Eugène NARBONNE (1885-1966). She became a member of the Salon des Artistes Français in 1950. Alice PASCO had her studio and gallery at 10 rue Carnot in Pontivy. This town gave its name to one of its streets.