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Edition Thionville – Hayange | Marie, 100 years old: “Life is so short”

The anniversary, an event, was originally intended to bring together around thirty guests. Project shaken up with the Covid-19, an invisible threat that ultimately didn’t get the better of the festivities. Marie Droulez, personality of the day, nevertheless celebrated her centenary of existence, alongside her loved ones. Of the clan, united around the great lady who kept a pep’s, a vitality, and especially a memory to make the dizzy fade. With disconcerting ease, she spells out the key dates in her life, her childhood, her late husband Henri with whom she had a son, Alain. The war too. Period during which his home becomes a place of passage for active resistance fighters.

“We are not bileux in the family”

Time doesn’t seem to have a hold on her. Of course health has sometimes faltered. The wife of a French teacher and daughter of a nurseryman, Marie Droulez is also the descendant of a line of winegrowers. She inherited the gift of longevity. In front of her stoves, the dishes she cooks tirelessly respect the recipes of yesteryear. “I didn’t do anything to be 100,” says the former manager of a Coop grocery store, mischievously. What I can tell you is that we are not bileux in the family! “

What about the coronavirus, madam? “It doesn’t scare me,” she defies, happy to let her son drive her to town and the surrounding area, and eager to see the world today.

“Life is so short, I’m happy with my fate,” admits the lover of esoteric books relating to life after death. I now know how I will be received. “

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