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Marie-Rose Tessier
French supercentenarian (born 1910) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marie-Rose Tessier (née Bousseau; born 21 May 1910) is a French supercentenarian. She is currently the oldest living French person and the second oldest living person in the world.[1][2]
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Marie-Rose Henriette Augustine Bousseau was born on 21 May 1910 in Beaurepaire, in the Vendée department in what is now the Pays de la Loire region.[3]
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.[3] Marie-Rose was the youngest of the couple's four children and the only girl. Her grandparents died before she was born.[4]
She married Auguste Charles Tessier (1904–1944) on 14 November 1927 in Ardelay.[5] They had two daughters: Denise Marie Rose Augustine (1928–2020) and Yvette Louise Eugénie (1929–2010).
On 18 April 1944, aged 33, Marie-Rose became a widow after her husband was killed during the Second World War in Aisne, Tergnier.[4]
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.[6]
She became the oldest woman in France following the death of Lucile Randon on 17 January 2023.[7][8] On 30 April 2025, following the death of Inah Canabarro Lucas, she became the world’s second oldest living person, after Ethel Caterham.[9][10]
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