The oldest Breton, Maria Gauvin, died at 111

The oldest Breton, Maria Gauvin, died on Saturday November 30, 2024. She celebrated her 111th birthday last August, at the Grand-Fougeray nursing home, in the south of Ille-et-Vilaine, which she never left throughout his long life.

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She celebrated her birthday at the end of last summer, and finally died three months later, at the age of 111. Maria Gauvin died on Saturday November 30, 2024 at the Grand-Fougeray nursing home, in the south of Ille-et-Vilaine, where she had lived since 2022.

109 years in the same town

Before that, she had spent 109 years of her life in the neighboring town of Sainte-Anne-sur-Vilaine. On her parents' farm, where she…