Wednesday May 6, Birthe Lejeune joined her husband in eternity. She was 92 years old, had been a widow since that Easter day 1994 when Jérôme Lejeune, at 67, had left too early. Twenty-six years to live without him, in reality twenty-six years to live with him, in an intimacy prolonged beyond death. Because she had put her inexhaustible energy to continue her work in the service of people with Down's syndrome.
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She was born Birthe Bringsted, in 1928, in Otterup, a few kilometers from Odense, in Denmark, her country of heart where she liked to take her family on vacation in a rustic hut at the edge of a water at very northern temperature. From Denmark, she had kept the accent and an Eskimo type which made her charming. It was in 1950, in Paris, where she came as an au pair, that she met Jérôme Lejeune. At that time, romantic meetings matured soberly.
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In 1952, they became engaged in Paris, after Birthe had converted to Catholicism, then they
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