Mélanie Berger-Volle was chosen by the Loire department to be part of the Olympic relays on June 22. The 102-year-old former resistance fighter will carry the Olympic flame to Saint-Étienne.
She arrived in France at the age of 18 in 1939, after having hitchhiked across Germany. At 80, she still jumped rope and walked in the creeks, when she went to the south of France to practice naturism. "I have two loves,” she confides.