EMILE FOURCADE, 111, RETIRED YEAR NAZIS INVADED FRANCE.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Emile Fourcade, France's oldest man, has died, 111 years after his birth and 56 years after he retired in the year Nazi Germany occupied France. Fourcade died at the Grenoble state hospital Dec. 29. His death was announced in a family obituary Saturday in the regional newspaper Le Dauphine dau·phine n. The wife of a dauphin. [French, feminine of dauphin; see dauphin.] Libere. Fourcade was born July 28, 1884, in Tlemcen, Algeria, when the North African North Africa A region of northern Africa generally considered to include the modern-day countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. North African adj. & n. Adj. 1. country was a French possession. An avid sportsman, Fourcade was a track runner at the turn of the century and a boxing referee before taking a job in 1915 as a tax inspector tax inspector n → inspector(a) m/f de Hacienda tax inspector n (Brit) → percepteur m tax inspector tax (Brit in Sidi-bel-Abbes, Algeria. Fourcade retired in 1940, the year Nazi Germany invaded and occupied France. He moved to Grenoble in 1960, two years before Algeria won its independence. His wife of 62 years, Rosalie, died in 1977. Fourcade is survived by the couple's two children, Pierre and Jeanne, who both are retired and live in the southern port of Toulon. Pierre and Jeanne each had children, but relatives contacted by the Associated Press on Saturday refused to say how many. Previous reports said Fourcade had 27 great-grandchildren. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Guinness Book of Records, the oldest woman in France - and in the world - is Jeanne Calment, who turned 120 in February. |
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