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Marie-Louise Bresson
Marie-Louise Bresson
Bresson at the age of 109
Birth: 15 March 1913
Mascara, Mascara Province, French Algeria (present-day Algeria)
Age: 111 years, 243 days
Country: French Algeria (1830–1962)F-ALG, FRAFranceFRA
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Marie-Louise Bresson (née Herbulot; born 15 March 1913) is an Algerian-born French supercentenarian whose age was validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) in September 2023.

Biography[]

Early Life[]

Bresson was born as Marie-Louise Herbulot in Mascara, Mascara Province, French Algeria (present-day Algeria), on 15 March 1913. She attended school in the coastal city of Oran. She became a teacher at the age of 20; her first class was one with 40 students. Her main subjects were math, spelling, history, and geography. She learned to read and write in Arabic, but did not speak it.

Later Life[]

In 1962, after the end of the Algerian War, Bresson emigrated with her parents to France, settling first in Toulouse, before spending a year in Perpignan. She looked after her mother, Lina, who lived to be 100 years old. In her later years, she enjoyed crocheting, embroidery, knitting, and painting. She had an operation to remove cataracts at the age of 90, and she stated that it was her first blood test in her life.

Bresson fractured her femur at the age of 104, and moved into a nursing home shortly thereafter. As a supercentenarian, she is reported to be in good health, still completing crosswords and watching quiz shows on television. She reads frequently, romance novels in particular, without glasses. Her sister was still living as of 2022 at the age of 99.

Bresson currently lives in Montreal, Aude, Occitanie, France, at the age of 111 years, 243 days. She is currently the oldest known living person born in present-day Algeria, and is also the oldest known living person in Aude department.

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