Camille Lehoux, dean of the Bretons, would have celebrated his 109 years on June 25. He died in the night from Monday to Tuesday, at the nursing home of the Verger des Korrigans, in Penvénan (Côtes-d’Armor) where he resided. “He died in all serenity, in his bed and without realizing it …”, comments a nurse.
A beautiful death for this phenomenon of longevity, born in 1912. He experienced the First World War, of which he retained an intact memory, the epidemic of Spanish flu, then the Second World War and confinement while he was prisoner in camps ravaged by a typhus epidemic.
An intellectual curiosity
On Wednesday January 27, he had been vaccinated against Covid-19, a pandemic that he took with philosophy … All those who met him will remember him for his great alertness, his taste for the news technologies and his intellectual curiosity. Despite a few recent minor health problems, he liked to joke about his old age, saying with humor: “They must have forgotten me …”
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