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Lazare Ponticelli

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Lazare continued managing the company with his brothers until his retirement in 1960. At the time of his death it was reported that the company had 4,000 employees and its annual revenue (2005) was €300 million (more than €1 billion in 2023). The company now operates in several countries outside
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Today, I express the nation's deep emotion and infinite sadness. I salute the Italian boy who came to Paris to earn his living and chose to become French, first in August 1914 when he lied about his age to sign up at 16 for the French Foreign Legion to defend his adopted homeland. Then a second time
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Once, his regiment ceased fighting the Austrians for three weeks. The armies, who mostly spoke each other's tongue, swapped loaves of bread for tobacco and photographed each other. In 1918 Ponticelli was gassed in an Austrian attack that killed hundreds of his fellow soldiers. Reflecting on war, he
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to work in its rice fields. Despite the Ponticelli family's hard work, they were impoverished and the children often went to bed on an empty stomach. When Lazare was two years of age, his mother moved to France to earn a better living. After the unexpected deaths of Jean Ponticelli and his eldest
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until 2007 he attended ceremonies honoring deceased veterans. In his later years, he criticized war, and stored his awards from the First World War in a shoe box. While he felt unworthy of the state funeral the French government offered him, he eventually accepted one. However, he asked that the
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Ponticelli's date of birth, according to the civil registry, was 7 December 1897, although this is likely to be a mistake. It was probably recorded as 27 December 1897 in the registry and the "2" was eroded. Ponticelli's mother remembered giving birth on 24 December (Christmas Eve) and that a
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At age six, Ponticelli started several jobs, including making clogs. By 1906, aged eight years old, he had saved enough money to buy a railway ticket to Paris, which he considered "paradise." To travel to the capital of France, he walked 21 miles (34 km) to the nearest train station at
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Ponticelli died at 12:45 pm (11:45 GMT) at his home in Le Kremlin-BicĂŞtre on 12 March 2008, aged 110. At the time of his death, Ponticelli was the oldest living man of Italian birth and the oldest man living in France.
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on 11 November 1918. Pierre Picault survived Goux by less than two weeks, but himself was an artilleryman who served less than three months, and is likewise not recognized by the French government as an "official" WWI
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After being demobilized in 1920, Ponticelli founded a metal work company with Céleste and Bonfils, his older brothers, which they called "Ponticelli Frères" ("Ponticelli Brothers"). Located in the
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At his new post as a machine gunner, Ponticelli was seriously wounded by a shell during an assault on an Austrian mountain position. He was returned to his post after rest and recuperation in
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of the French Foreign Legion, the same regiment that Ponticelli fought in, carried his coffin at the funeral. After the procession, he was buried in his family's plot at
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On 11 November 2008, during the first Armistice Day since his death, Rue de Verdun in Le Kremlin-BicĂŞtre was renamed Rue de Verdun-Lazare-Ponticelli.
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on 24 December 2007, celebrating his official 110th birthday at the National History of Immigration Museum. He kept his war medals in a shoebox.
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Flags were ordered to be flown at half mast while Sarkozy unveiled a plaque dedicated to the veterans of World War I. Legionnaires of the
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the following year. After the war, he came back to Paris where he and his brothers founded the piping and metal work company
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His mother cultivated the family's small plot of land and, like many women of the area, commuted three times a year to the
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Ponticelli was the oldest living man of Italian birth and the oldest man living in France at the time of his death. Every
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Born in Italy, he travelled on his own to France at the age of eight. Aged 16, he lied about his age in order to join the
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for the war dead of France. Ponticelli had at least one child, his then-78-year-old daughter, Janine Desbaucheron.
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Ponticelli was not a French citizen and in May 1915, when Italy entered the war, he was conscripted into the
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and was attended by government ministers, soldiers and members of Ponticelli's family. French academic
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son, Pierre, the rest of the family moved to Paris, leaving Lazare in the care of neighbors.
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Dagneaux, Philippe (18 March 2008). "A travers Ponticelli, le vibrant hommage aux Poilus".
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His state funeral was held on 17 March 2008. The mass was held at Saint-Louis Cathedral in
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was discovered to be a French veteran. However, Goux was not officially recognized as a
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procession emphasise the common soldiers who died on the battlefield. French president
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In one of his last interviews, Ponticelli stated he was amazed at his own survival.
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was taken over by the Germans, they returned northwards and began working with the
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Lazare Ponticelli (center) between two reenactment members in old uniforms in 2006
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at the start of the war in 1914, before being transferred against his will to the
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ceremonies. An honored citizen of his adopted town, Ponticelli voted in the
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effort and as of August 2024, is still in business. He also worked with the
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Ponticelli Frères: les premières annĂ©es : trois frères, une entreprise
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Until his death, Ponticelli lived with his daughter in the Paris suburb of
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Guillaume Kaleff read a poem written by his class in Ponticelli's honor.
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honored his wish and dedicated a plaque to them at the procession.
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When originally offered a state funeral by then French President
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Ganley, Elaine (18 March 2008). "Adieu to an oldest soldier".
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snowstorm delayed any exit from the house for three days.
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In August 1914, aged 16, shortly after the outbreak of
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List of last surviving World War I veterans by country
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In June 2008, three months after Ponticelli's death,
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Ponticelli saw service against the 351:in Picardy, northeast France, and at 1467:People from the Province of Piacenza 1382:"Une rue baptisĂ©e Lazare-Ponticelli" 400: 1279: 1227: 1114: 1085: 995: 962: 925: 862: 843:Hofstein, Cyril (29 January 2008). 251:), which produced supplies for the 78:(aged 110 years, 79 days) 13: 1477:20th-century French businesspeople 1235:"France's oldest WW1 veteran dies" 1069:. 11 November 2007. Archived from 1021: 784: 731: 670: 370:Regiment, after being escorted to 14: 1548: 1126:"France honours last WWI veteran" 1040:. Associated Press. 13 March 2008 944:"France's final WWI veteran dies" 872:Vincenot, Alain (13 March 2008). 686:Martin, Douglas (13 March 2008). 339:, Ponticelli was assigned to the 1497:Italian people of French descent 976:Kantner, James (12 March 2008). 905:Pirot, Laurent (12 March 2008). 810:Thiolay, Boris (12 March 2008). 107: 95: 1512:Knights of the Legion of Honour 1373: 1357:. 17 March 2008. 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