Paule celebrated her hundredth birthday with her family

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Sunday October 27, 2024, Paule Gergaud surrounded herself with all her loved ones and her family to celebrate, Touches (Loire-Atlantique), its 100th anniversary! Still in good shape and full of memories, Paule, who is now great-grandmotherconfided in the events that marked his life. Of the events traced in a booklet, written using a biographer.

Loire-Atlantique: Paule celebrates its hundredth anniversary

Through a booklet written in collaboration with Nicole, her daughter-in-law, and Cécile Garnier, a biographerPaule née André did not forget an event of her “modest life” which she can detail with complete simplicity. “My memory is still good and I am surprised by the interest people show me. »

Thus, a whole river of memories passes by. Only child, she loses her father to peritonitis poorly cared for at 18 months. “My maternal grandfather took us in and raised me as his 13th child. In winter, we mounted our brick heated by the fireplace in newspaper. My grandmother fed me the stew. »

She married after the war of 39-45

At the age of 5, Paule was enrolled at the Sainte-Angèle school, with the Ursulines. “For my certificate, my grandfather gave me a bicycle. At Talensac school, for three years, I learned business, sewing and typing. »

After the World War IIhappier events will brighten up the life of Paule, who will marry Louis Gergaud in 1947. They will have two children, two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

To the Saint-Joseph des Touches residencewhere she is now, Paule feels “good and is happy”.

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