| Alexandrine Bourree | |
 Bourree on her 107th birthday in 2011. | |
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Alexandrine Bourree [French: Bourrée] (née Fermin; 5 June 1904 – 1 July 2014) was a French supercentenarian whose age was validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) in 2019.
Biography[]
Alexandrine Bourree was born as Alexandrine Fermin in Manche, Normandy, France on 5 June 1904. She married Emile Bourree [French: Émile Bourrée] in 1931 and they lived in his farm in La Bazuraie, Husson, Manche. The couple had a daughter, Marie, in 1936, who later married Georges Lebrun.
Emile Bourree died in 1960, making Alexandrine a widow. Alexandrine continued to work on the farm until 1983, when she moved in with her daughter and her son-in-law. She remained with them for 27 years, until 2010, when she moved into a nursing home.
On her 110th birthday in 2014, she had a daughter, three grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandson, who visited her almost every day. Her daughter Marie was 78 when Alexandrine turned 110.
Bourree died on 1 July 2014 at the age of 110 years, 26 days, after her health began to decline.
References[]
- Gerontology Research Group
- Doyenne de Basse-Normandie, Alexandrine a fêté ses 109 ans Ouest-France, 9 June 2013
- Alexandrine, doyenne de Basse-Normandie, a fêté ses 110 ans Ouest-France, 1 July 2014