Supercentenarian Profile

Maurice Le Coutour

Born:

1914-05-12

Vicq-sur-Mer (Gouberville), Manche, Normandy

France

Died:

2026-01-23

Barfleur, Manche, Normandy

France

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Maurice Le Coutour was a French supercentenarian who was the country’s oldest living man at the time of his passing.

BIOGRAPHY

Maurice Le Coutour was born on 12 May 1914 in Gouberville (present-day Vicq-sur-Mer), Normandy, France. His father worked as a carpenter while his mother was a homemaker. After finishing school in Gouberville, he worked in a grocery store in Cherbourg.

Le Coutour was mobilized in the Second World War and fought in the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940 before being evacuated by the British Navy (Operation Dynamo). His mother and sister were alone, so he had to provide for the family. He continued working in Cherbourg, even during periods of bombing. After the war, he became a secretary at the Tocqueville dairy and a school bus driver. He retired at the age of 65. At some point, he married Madeleine. The couple had a son who died young.

Maurice Le Coutour passed away in Barfleur, Manche, Normandy, on 23 January 2026, at the age of 111 years, 256 days.

RECOGNITION

On 1 June 2024, following the passing of 112-year-old Georges Thomas, he became the oldest living man in France. Upon his own passing, he was succeeded by Henri Content.

His age was verified by members of Les Grands Centenaires Français, and validated by the European Supercentenarian Organisation on 21 May 2024.