Paule Brillouët (Hervo, her maiden name) was born in Locminé on December 17, 1924, into a family of traders, shoe merchants. She had an older brother, a little older, Raymond (formerly of the Kieffer commandos) and lost her mother at the age of 4. Paule Brillouët’s father remarried a little later, giving him two half-sisters, Marcelle and Marie-Claire.
As a teenager, Paule Brillouët attended the housekeeping school in Kermaria and then worked in the markets with her father. In 1946, she married Maurice Brillouët, a handsome young man, a baker by training, with whom she gave birth to three sons, Didier in 1947, Claude in 1948 and Michel in 1951.
A world tour
With her husband, Paule Brillouët ran a bakery in Saint-Jean-de-Monts (Vendée), before Maurice became a soldier in the air force for fifteen years, participating in combat in Indochina and Algeria before working as a warehouseman-accountant in the civilian sector, setting up factories in different countries (Saudi Arabia, Russia, etc.). During their lives, Paule Brillouët followed him to Iran, Mauritania, Morocco and even East Germany.
In 1968, the couple settled, for their retirement, at Poulfanc, in Séné, where they received many friends. “Our parents stopped traveling at that time. They went to Corsica once a year but had a very active social life,” explain Didier and Michel, Paule’s sons. Their father died in 2004 of a heart attack and Paule Brillouët became closer to her children by coming to live in Brandivy.
In 2019, after a fall and a long hospitalization, Paule Brillouët moved to the shared home at Golher where she says she is “very happy and pampered”. Five years later, on Saturday December 14, she celebrated her 100th birthday there, with family and with staff, volunteers and other residents, in good spirits with cakes, bubbles, gifts and confetti.
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