French dean Andre Bouat died on Friday at his home in Nice at the age of 111, AFP learned from sources familiar with the matter. If Andre Bouat was, in the absence of any official census, the oldest known Frenchman, the oldest person in France remains Sister Andre, 118, who lives in a nursing home in Toulon.
A man of “incredible kindness”.
Since April, Sister Andre, born Lucille Randon on February 11, 1904, in Ales (Garde), southern France, had also become the probable dean of humanity with the announcement of Kane Tanaka of Japan and his 119-year-old death. old Andre Box “was very tired for a while and died at home today at 2:00 p.m.”One of his relatives, who wished to remain anonymous, told AFP, confirming the information of the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrozi, who was the first to announce the death of its oldest citizen on Twitter.
Andre Buat, born in 1910 Dec. 6 in Argent-sur-Sould, Cher, until the age of 80, managed the tourist office of Villefranche-sur-Mary (Alpes-Maritimes), a seaside resort near Nice, and had remained active in the field of tourism until his last years. Deported during the Second World War, he married Yvette on his 41st birthday in Bougares (Algeria). His wife died in 2017 at the age of 95. He had three children, two sons, one of whom is already dead, and one daughter. “He still had his whole head, he remembered a lot of things that he loved to tell, he also loved to sing and drink a little glass of wine.”he testified about this to AFP, speaking a “A great little man, super-adorable, very cute and incredibly kind.”
The mayor of Nice, who visited him on his birthday in December, shared his on Twitter “sadness”awakening the memory “The man who loved his space” and: “local tourism premise”. Mr. Bouat’s reputed successor is a 110-year-old man living in Bouches-du-Rhône. Let him wish to remain anonymous, Laurent Toussaint, one of the moderators of the forum on the Internet, explained to AFP. French centenarians, where our oldest citizens are remarkably listed. According to this centenarian, Andre Boya was one of the five or six oldest known men in the world. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the world’s oldest person since May is 112-year-old Venezuelan farmer Juan Vincente Perez.
Source: Le Figaro
