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<blockquote data-quote="NZL Fan" data-source="post: 89965"><p>RIP - Maurice Floquet - 111 - died because he was bloody old!</p><p></p><p>The fifth to last French world war one veteran, and at the time of his death (10th November) was the oldest living Frenchman, and oldest living man in Europe.</p><p></p><p>He was the last man to be born in the year 1894.</p><p></p><p>He was a top soldier, and was wounded twice during the great war. He himself was "in the wars" (bad pun I know) with a lump of rock embedded in his throat (an enemy soldier removed it to save his life), a grenade wounded his arm and head (a nurse used a piece of someone elses cartilage to patch up his noggen!), and one of his outer ears was blown off.</p><p></p><p>In the footsteps of Palance old 'Morrie' deserves an honourable mention in this esteemed thread due to the fact that at the age of 110 he was still doing 20 minutes a day on an exercise bike! - Hell, he only retired in <strong>1952!</strong></p><p></p><p><img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42302000/jpg/_42302030_floquet_afp203bo.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NZL Fan, post: 89965"] RIP - Maurice Floquet - 111 - died because he was bloody old! The fifth to last French world war one veteran, and at the time of his death (10th November) was the oldest living Frenchman, and oldest living man in Europe. He was the last man to be born in the year 1894. He was a top soldier, and was wounded twice during the great war. He himself was "in the wars" (bad pun I know) with a lump of rock embedded in his throat (an enemy soldier removed it to save his life), a grenade wounded his arm and head (a nurse used a piece of someone elses cartilage to patch up his noggen!), and one of his outer ears was blown off. In the footsteps of Palance old 'Morrie' deserves an honourable mention in this esteemed thread due to the fact that at the age of 110 he was still doing 20 minutes a day on an exercise bike! - Hell, he only retired in [b]1952![/b] [img]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42302000/jpg/_42302030_floquet_afp203bo.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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