She is a resistance fighter, according to her daughters Dany and Jocelyne. As proof, Odette Poupeau, 100, was not really shaken by the historic earthquake which shook all of western France on Friday June 16, 2023.
I didn’t feel anything. Heard nothing. I was in a wheelchair in the hallway of the nursing home when I saw a group of women running. One of them repeated: “It’s not true”, reports the Niortaise, with a smirk. Before continuing: With my husband, we were on the island of Oléron in 1972, during the earthquake. There, it was shaking. We were with friends: in their house, the paintings were coming off the walls.
“We heard planes and we saw this smoke…”
The frail-looking granny, staring, has known others. And the telluric vibrations – not lethal – are only trifles in view of the burning international news dominated since February 2022 by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I am very afraid of war, of wars, the…
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