Marie-Rose Tessier
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Marie-Rose Tessier | |
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| Born | Marie-Rose Bousseau 21 May 1910 (age 114 years, 278 days) |
| Nationality | French |
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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.
Biography
[edit]Marie-Rose Henriette Augustine Bousseau was born on 21 May 1910 in Beaurepaire, in the north of the Vendée département in what is now the Pays de la Loire region.[1]
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.[2]
Marie-Rose was the youngest of the couple's four children and the only girl. She did not know any of her grandparents, who all died before she was born.
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 just 33, Marie-Rose became a widow after her husband was killed during the Second World War in Aisne, Tergnier.
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.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Marie-Rose Tessier". LongeviQuest. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
- ^ "Marie-Rose Tessier". Gerontology Research Group. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
- ^ "LGCF: Les Grands Centenaires Français" (in French). Retrieved 22 February 2025.