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N. Caledonia
NEW CALEDONIA’S oldest inhabitant, Madame Louis Guichard, died in Noumea on October 3 at the age of over 100. She was born in the island of Reunion on April 20, 1847, and she was married in that colony in the year of the Franco-Prussian War (1870).
Two years later she and her husband came to New Caledonia. Her family numbered three children, 14 grandchild ren and 12 great grandchildren. She had always enjoyed excellent health and a clear memory of Caledonian events, in cluding the native revolt of 1878.