BIOGRAPHY

Pellet was born as Augusta Barthelemy in Aspremont, a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department, on 3 July 1913. She married Georges Pellet in the same commune on 29 April 1939 and had a daughter, Danielle, the following year.

At the age of 110, Pellet was a great-great-grandmother, and was among the 30 oldest living people in France.

RECOGNITION

Pellet was not known to researchers until after her 110th birthday, when an article was published in Le Dauphiné Libéré.

ATTRIBUTION

• Augusta Pellet a fêté ses 110 ans – Le Dauphiné Libéré, 17 July 2023 (paywalled)
• Obituary – Simplifia, 26 August 2023

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