Bourdon, Robert
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| Birthname | Robert Eugène Bourdon | ||||
| born on | 25 March 1906 at 09:00 (= 09:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Issy les Moulineaux, France, 48n49, 2e17 | ||||
| Timezone | PMT m2e2015 (is standard time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   03°48'  08°01 Asc. 16°42'
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Biography
French centenarian, he was the Doyen masculin des Français, France's oldest man, from 13 January 2016 until his death in Nice at age 109 on 9 March 2016. He became doyen upon the death of Roger Gouzy and he was succeeded as doyen by Georges Massard.
Robert Bourdon's father died when he was 17. In 1918, he obtained the certificate of primary studies with the classification of 1st in the canton. In 1923, he obtained a diploma in technical engineering from the Higher School of Electricity (Supélec).
In 1970, he retired and moved to Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée. He was involved in the tourist office and the expansion of the Auron station. In 2016, he moved to Nice.
He wrote two books, Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée: jadis et aujourd'hui: histoire et évolution d'un village frontalier des Alpes-Maritimes (1991) and Un siècle! Et quel siècle!: mémoires d'un centenaire (2006).
Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
Relationships
- compare to chart of Massard, Georges (born 2 November 1906)
Events
Source Notes
Civil birth registry entry in hand from Sy Scholfield, copy on file (Hauts-de-Seine archives, no. 102).
Categories
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Centenarian, age 109)
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
- Notable : Famous : Newsmaker
