Chez Marie-Rose, in Landerneau, welcomes the fifth generation – Landerneau
“I resisted well until then, I saw it, I am happy”. We can approach the milestone of a hundred and still enjoy the great and small pleasures of life. In her pretty house on the road to Quimper, in Landerneau, which she has occupied for 53 years, Marie-Rose Fustec smiles at the mention of the arrival, on March 14, of the youngest of a large tribe composed previously four children, twelve grandchildren, and eighteen great-grandchildren. Alya, whose parents live in Vannes, has come to add a nice chapter to a family novel that now spans five generations, without sometimes creating a few surprises.
“Great-grandmother, it’s prettier”
“I didn’t think that’s where I would have had a great-great-granddaughter”, still surprised Marie-Rose, rarely caught off guard when you have to slide down a tree. genealogy with multiple ramifications. “She rarely forgets a birthday,” confirms her daughter Geneviève, who watches over her and comes to visit her from her neighboring home in La Fosse-aux-Loups. “It’s because I note in a notebook”, replies tit for tat the one who prefers to be called a great-great-grandmother, “because it’s still prettier than great-great-grandmother”.
You have to believe that happiness keeps, judging by the liveliness of the owner of the premises, who conducts her small business at home, with the help of a carer. She sees advantages in it: “I don’t do the housework anymore,” she smiles. And wait for the arrival of fine weather to find his garden overlooking the Saint-Ernel district and be able to continue to chat quietly with his loved ones. “I’m weakening, but I’m cunning,” she admits, conceding that she has “a language that works perfectly.”
“We will designate to stay for three years”
It is in Landerneau that the Morlaisienne, who claims it, integrated her life, after having produced a nice Tro Breizh via Guingamp and Douarnenez according to the assignments of Jean, her teacher husband, before anchoring herself, a little by chance , in the City of the Moon. “He asked for Brest or Morlaix, he got Landerneau,” explains their daughter Geneviève. “We have to stay three years, then leave,” remembers Marie-Rose perfectly. They have not moved from the road to Quimper.
Jean Fustec had a long professional tenure as a literature teacher at Elorn high school, where he ended his career, while investing in the conduct of municipal affairs with Jean-Pierre Thomin. After his death, Marie-Rose remained in the family home. She saw the city transform, the environment assessed. “At the time, it was a new neighborhood that was being created. Today, I am the oldest… ” The observation is implacable, but the evocation of little Alya is enough to cheer her up.