She had an iron health. As recently as April 11, she clinked glasses in her French apartment in Antibes with her daughter, Laurence, and her famous son-in-law to celebrate her 108th birthday. “Soon, you will be able to stay in your living room and watch my concert in 3D hologram from your home,” the singer told him. Robert Charlebois’ mother-in-law, Lucienne Frey, whom those around her affectionately called Mamita, breathed her last last week in her native France.
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His grandson, singer-songwriter Jérôme Charlebois, gave him a song, which he recorded in a video posted on his Facebook. “I wanted to pay tribute to my grandmother. […] To the tune of Mamy Bluehere is Meters…»
The newspaper nice morning spoke of her as a woman surrounded, dynamic, independent and curious to discover the world – she left alone for India at 88 years old. It states that she drove her car until she was 98 years old.
Robert Charlebois was very close to his mother-in-law and to the place where she had lived for ages. “I am the most Antibois of Quebecers and the most Azurean of Canadians,” the singer had, among other things, declared in a video, where the entourage celebrated the 105th anniversary of the lady. “My mother-in-law heard that the oldest on the planet was Japanese and she was 120, so she said, ‘I still have at least 15 years left.’”
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