Valentine Ligny
Valentine Madeleine Ligny (née Bonel; born 22 October 1906) is a French supercentenarian.
Biography
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. When Valentine was 5, the Bonel family moved to Amiens.
It was in Amiens on 6 June 1933 that Valentine married Pierre Édouard Charles Ligny (b. 1905), who hailed from Guînes. The couple moved to the neighbourhood of Saint-Acheul, where Valentine lived for over eighty years. 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.
Ligny has three daughters- Nicole, Claudine, and Françoise; she also has six grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren, and a great-great-granddaughter, born in 2018. 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.
Biography
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. When Valentine was 5, the Bonel family moved to Amiens.
It was in Amiens on 6 June 1933 that Valentine married Pierre Édouard Charles Ligny (b. 1905), who hailed from Guînes. The couple moved to the neighbourhood of Saint-Acheul, where Valentine lived for over eighty years. 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.
Ligny has three daughters- Nicole, Claudine, and Françoise; she also has six grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren, and a great-great-granddaughter, born in 2018. 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.
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