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Marie Dufour
Marie Dufour
Dufour in May 2022, aged 110
Birth: 14 December 1911
Lyon, Metropole de Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
Death: 15 November 2022
Rillieux-le-Pape, Metropole de Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
Age: 110 years, 336 days
Country: FranceFRA
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Marie Dufour (née Vallat; 14 December 1911 – 15 November 2022) was a French supercentenarian whose age was validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) in 2022.

Biography[]

Marie Dufour was born as Marie Vallat in the 3rd district of Lyon, Metropole de Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France on 14 December 1911. On 5 March 1936, she married Pierre Dufour in the 6th district of Lyon.

Dufour lived in her own house until the age of 108. In July 2019, following a fall at home, she moved to the nursing home Castellane in Rillieux-le-Pape. In December 2019, she was reported to be the oldest of the four centenarians of the nursing home.

Dufour died in Rillieux-le-Pape, Metropole de Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France on 15 November 2022, at the age of 110 years, 336 days. At the time of her death, she was the third-oldest known living person in Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, behind Marguerite Larmignat and a 110-year-old anonymous woman. She was also the oldest living person in Metropole de Lyon at the time of her death.

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