Marie-Rose Tessier
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Marie-Rose Tessier | |
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| Born | Marie-Rose Bousseau 21 May 1910 (age 114 years, 299 days) |
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| Spouse |
Auguste Tessier (1904-1944)
(m. 1927; died 1944) |
| Children | 2 (both deceased) |
Marie-Rose Tessier (née Bousseau; born 21 May 1910) is a French supercentenarian. She is currently the oldest living French person, and the fourth oldest in the world. [1] [2]
Biography
[edit]Marie-Rose Henriette Augustine Bousseau was born on 21 May 1910 in Beaurepaire, in the Vendée département in what is now the Pays de la Loire region.[3]
Her father, Alexis Auguste Bousseau (1868-1935), was a farmer and her mother, Marie Ernestine Rose Durand (1876-1962), was a housewife. Her parents married in 1898.[3] Marie-Rose was the youngest of the couple's four children and the only girl. Her grandparents died before she was born.[4]
She married Auguste Charles Tessier (1904-1944) on 14 November 1927 in Ardelay. They had two daughters: Denise Marie Rose Augustine (1928-2020) and Yvette Louise Eugénie (1929-2010).
On 18 April 1944, aged 33, Marie-Rose became a widow after her husband was killed during the Second World War in Aisne, Tergnier.[4]
She lived in Fougères, then in Paris, before returning to her native Vendée when she retired.
Since 2010, she has been living in a nursing home (EHPAD) in Les Sables-d'Olonne.
She became the oldest woman in France following the death of Lucile Randon on 17 January 2023. [5]
References
[edit]- ^ "World Supercentenarian Ranking List". Gerontology Research Group. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
- ^ "LGCF: Les Grands Centenaires Français" (in French). Retrieved 22 February 2025.
- ^ a b "Marie-Rose Tessier". LongeviQuest. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
- ^ a b Beaucarnot, Jean-Louis (19 January 2023). "Les racines vendéennes de Marie-Rose Tessier, nouvelle doyenne des Français". La Revue française de Généalogie (in French). Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ "Ǎgée de 112 ans, Marie-Rose Tessier serait la nouvelle doyenne des Français". Actu (in French). Retrieved 27 February 2025.