| Genevieve Callerot | |
 Callerot (aged 102) with her novel intitled Deux filles sous la botte | |
| Birth: | 6 May 1916 Paris, Ile-de-France, France |
| Death: | 16 Janurary 2025 Saint-Aulaye, Saint-Aulaye-Puymangou, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France |
| Age: | 108 years, 255 days |
| Country: |  FRA
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| Centenarian | |
Genevieve Callerot [French: Geneviève] (6 May 1916 – 16 January 2025) was a French centenarian, novelist, and farmer. In World War II, with her father and sister, she assisted more than 200 people in passing the demarcation line from the occupied french territory to Zone libre, the unoccupied territory of Vichy France.
Biography[]
Genevieve Callerot was born in Paris, Ile-de-France, France on 6 May 1916. Before end of World War I, she escaped the Paris shelling by the German siege guns to Perigord and settled in Saint-Aulaye (Departement Dordogne). She took homeschooling by her parents.
The armistice of 22 June 1940 set the Demarcation line separating the German occupied part of France to the zone libre near their residence. With her father and sister, she started helping people passing the demarcation line. Until arrested and imprisoned for three weeks in October 1942, she helped Jews, children and wounded British and American soldiers to escape from the Nazi Regime occupied territory over two years.
After the war, she rented with her husband a farm. In the 1960s her cousin, writer Jean-Charles discovered her skills in writing. Not longer wasting her talent the following decades, in 1983 her book Les Cinq Filles du Grand-Barrail became a success.
On 24 August 2018, she became a member of the Legion of Honour. The award was handed out by former member of departmental council of Dordogne Gerard Fayolle. Rejecting former offers, as an honor to her parents she accepted this award.
Callerot died in Saint-Aulaye, Saint-Aulaye-Puymangou, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, on 16 January 2025 at the age of 108 years, 255 days.
References[]
- Geneviève Callerot, retraitée agricole périgourdine, romancière, et...centenaire France 3 Régions, 12 May 2016
- Présidentielle 2017 : A 101 ans, Geneviève Callerot connaîtra son 17ème président MinuteNews, 7 May 2017 (Archived)
- Dordogne : une centenaire reçoit la légion d'honneur ce vendredi France Bleu, 23 August 2018
- Elle sauve 200 personnes pendant la guerre et reçoit la Légion d’honneur à 102 ans Le Parisien, 24 August 2018
- Elle reçoit la Légion d'honneur à 102 ans Le Figaro, 24 August 2018
- Geneviève Callerot, 105 ans, mémoire vivante d'un siècle d'agriculture Française sur France 2 ce mardi France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine, 23 February 2021
- 106th birthday Mairie de Saint Aulaye-Puymangou on Facebook, 6 May 2022
- Saint-Aulaye-Puymangou : résistante, agricultrice, écrivaine, les vies de Geneviève Callerot Sud-Ouest, 20 May 2022
- 107th birthday Facebook, 6 May 2023
- 108th birthday confirmation Facebook, 8 May 2024
- Romancière, résistante et paysanne, la doyenne Geneviève Callerot est décédée à l'âge de 108 ans Francetvinfo, 17 January 2025