Valentine Ligny
| Valentine Ligny | |
|---|---|
| Born | Valentine Madeleine Bonel 22 October 1906 (age 117 years, 189 days) Avion, Pas-de-Calais, France |
| 💀Died | 4 January 2022 France4 January 2022 |
| 💼 Occupation | Officeworker |
| Known for | Second-oldest living person in France |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Pierre Ligny (m. 1933; died 1947) |
| 👶 Children | 3 |
Valentine Madeleine Ligny (née Bonel; 22 October 1906 - 4 January 2022) was a French supercentenarian.
Biography[edit]
Valentine Madeleine Bonel was born on 22 October 1906 in Avion, Pas-de-Calais. Her father, Jules Bonel, was a railway worker. Her mother, Hélène Sophie (née Bienfait), was a housekeeper.[1] When Valentine was 5, the Bonel family moved to Amiens.[2]
It was in Amiens on 6 June 1933 that Valentine married Pierre Édouard Charles Ligny (b. 1905), who hailed from Guînes.[1][3] The couple moved to the neighbourhood of Saint-Acheul, where Valentine lived for over eighty years.[2]
After the end of the Second World War, Ligny's husband returned to rebuild the bombed-out house on rue de Croÿ.[2] On 27 July 1947, Pierre Ligny was killed when he saved his nephew from drowning.[4] Whilst on a trip to Cayeux-sur-Mer, Ligny's nephew had been out swimming when he encountered difficulties. Pierre went out to save the boy, and brought him safely back to the shore; Pierre then became unwell and died from complications shortly afterwards.[5]
Ligny worked over the years as an office worker for Établissements Boulogne, a business dealing in bathroom equipment, heating appliances and construction materials.[6]
Ligny has three daughters- Nicole, Claudine, and Françoise; she also has six grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren, and a great-great-granddaughter, born in 2018.[5] After having lived in the same house for over 80 years, she moved from it into a retirement home in 2015, at the age of 109.[7]
Ligny died on 4 January 2022 at the age of 115 years, 74 days.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Acte de naissance de Valentine Bonel, archives départementales du Pas-de-Calais, registre 3E 065/18, p. 113/327.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bergeon, Coline (25 October 2017). "Dame de fer" [Iron Lady]. le site de la mairie d'Amiens (in French). Retrieved 26 May 2021.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Acte de naissance de Pierre Ligny, archives départementales du Pas-de-Calais, registre 3E 397/74, p. 214/232.
- ↑ "AMIENS Valentine Ligny a fêté ses 110 ans". Le Courrier Picard. 22 October 2016. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Quioc, Nolwenn (25 October 2018). ""Ne lui chantez pas Valentine" : la doyenne des Hauts-de-France a fêté ses 112 ans". France Bleu. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
- ↑ Lamarre, Vanessa (22 October 2019). "Valentine, la doyenne des Amiénois a 113 ans". France Bleu. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
- ↑ "La doyenne des Hauts-de-France vient de fêter ses 111 ans". France 3. 22 October 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
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