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Jan 11, 2025 at 11:46 a.m.
January 31, 2025 is a important dates for Gisèle Veillard. That day, in fact born in Mayenne on January 31, 1925, she will blow her 100 candles.
Biography
Born in Villaine-la-Juhel, Gisèle continued her schooling at La Chapelle-au-Riboul, at the Ave Maria boarding school, today’s Maison de Perrine, with around a hundred other boarders.
She remained there for seven years until her baccalaureate. At the end of the war, Gisèle worked for two years as a teacher in Lassay-les-Châteaux in Mayenne. Then, she will marry before living again a few years has Villaines-la-Juhel and settling in La Chapelle-au-Riboul in 1952.
There she will hold a coffee-tobacco with her husband, who was at the same time a driver at the career of his uncle Dominique Borgogno. Their commerce was located route du Horpscurrent street of the town hall. She has never left it since. From this union was born Marie-Dominique, known as Mido 76 anstoday, Raoul, 71 years old.
Personality
Gisèle is a alert womanwho plays the piano and still walks easily, despite being 100 years old.
Involved in numerous associationslike ACIM (Association of India and the World), Alençon-Kioutala to help with drilling Maliat the Library or at the village town hall, she has always been active. According to her, this would be her secret to longevity.
-The town hall of the commune will celebrate this anniversary with dignity on February 1st during a moment convivial surrounded by family and friends.
Anecdotes
The resistance
At the call of General de Gaulle, resistance was organized. A gang of five to six boys operated at night, unbolting the rails, evacuating people in danger hidden on the farms. At their head, Doctor Du Chalard. He hid resistance fighters in his cellar while Germans were installed in his living room. This resistance fighter sometimes came to Gisèle’s house to type his mail on the typewriter. “And it was me who carried the messages by bike!”, she said.
The sawdust flag. “During the war, the Germans had installed their headquarters at the presbytery and did not disturb the boarding school.
But, with mischievous boarding friends, we had imagined a little farce insolent on the occasion of the Corpus Christi procession in June. With Sister Helen, an Irish nun, we obtained some sawdust from a carpenter.
We had tinted it, in order to composer an English flag and a French flag on the ground of the court. It was a nice snub to the Germansalthough a little risky! “, she says, still amused.
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