She is about to celebrate this Thursday… her 117 years.
Sister André, Lucile Randon, her real name, was born on February 11, 1904. She is the dean of France and Europe.
A longevity that has notably seen her go through two world wars and know 19 different Presidents.
More recently, in January, Sister André was also affected by Covid-19, like many other residents of her nursing home in Toulon (Var).
“I didn't know I had it, I didn't feel anything and I slept,” she explains.
For her birthday, she assures him with aplomb: "I'm not planning anything".
But on the program for this rather unusual day, there will be a videoconference with his little nephews and great-grand-nephews, then a mass and a lunch.
And on the menu, his favorite dessert: the Norwegian omelette.
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Born in 1904 in Alès, Sister André was baptized at the age of 26 and entered orders quite late, at age 41, in the company of the Daughters of Charity.
She worked until the end of the 1970s and then spent 30 years in an nursing home in the town of Marches, in Savoie, before moving to an establishment in Toulon.
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