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).