Marie-Antoinette, former manager of Campeur Nîmes, turned 100

Marie-Antoinette Casabianca with her only daughter Marie-Jeanne Garrigue.

Born in 1924 in Olivèse in Southern Corsica, Marie-Antoinette Casabianca, née Giudicelli, well known and very popular in the Ventabren district, has just celebrated her 100th birthday, surrounded by her only daughter , Marie-Jeanne Garrigue, retired nurse, and her grandson Christophe, surveyor at Eiffage.

In the family, being a hundred years old is almost a tradition, as Marie-Antoinette herself points out with a smile: " On my husband's side, there was an aunt, and then my mother's brother, and you know, in Corsica, it seems that there are quite a few ! " Retired since 1986, for a quarter of a century, she was the manager of a well-known sports and outdoor store in Nîmes, Le Campeur Nîmois, located in Chemin-Bas d'Avignon , at the time a very popular, family-oriented neighborhood. Previously in Alès, she also worked for a few years for the Riboulet biscuit factory, until her return to Nîmes, Don-Jean, her husband, being a civil servant at the Prefecture.

Of Corsican origin

Once in retirement, the couple sailed a lot between their beautiful native island and the continent. Fourteen bouquets of flowers arrived during the week from Corsica, but also from other regions of France where the family has settled, in dispersed order, because the family bond is very strong on the Isle of Beauty. " In Corsica, family is very important. First cousins ​​are considered brothers and sisters " specifies Marie-Jeanne.

It’s at the restaurant "Le Plaisir des Halles" that Marie-Antoinette chose to gather around twenty of her loved ones to mark this beautiful symbolic anniversary.

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