Marcel Meys, a resident of Saint-Romain-en-Gal in the Rhône, is 110 years old. Meeting at home where, interviewed, he expresses himself on his age: ".. life wanted me to live until this date, it is huge, I find myself, a lot".
Several generations of the family of Henri Pérignon, dean of the French, gathered in Calvados, to celebrate the 110 years of the latter. Interviewed, he says: "I saw Carnot when he was elected, I was 7 or 8 years old, I drove Lyautey to the Elysée...".
Marie-Virginie Duhem, dean of the French, celebrates her 110 years in Wattignies, in the North. A mass is celebrated in his honor and the abbot rejoices in this longevity. She says she is very happy to celebrate this anniversary surrounded by her whole family. It evokes her first memories, during the war of 1870.
Invited on stage for a centenary, Eugenie evokes some fragments of her life. About the house of the other residents of her retirement home she says: "I do not date anyone, I am wild and I want to stay as I am...", then she adds "...I worked the land I, I stirred it, more than you!"
Eugénie Coussy, invited to talk about her centenary life, says what she thinks of life in general: "It has changed, we are spoiled, we were not spoiled before mister...". She thinks youth too spoiled.
Madame Graziella Inzirillo, 120, dean of the French, shares some of her memories, such as her youth in Tunisia, the two wars she experienced, the First and the Second World War...