Odile de Vasselot de Régné was born on January 6, 1922 in Saumur, the headquarters of the French Cavalry School, in the Valley of Loira, by Gaston de Vasselot de Régné and Chantal de Cognac.
She grew largely in Metz, studying with the nuns of the Sacred Heart. His father was parked there before the war, like Colonel de Gaulle, who directed 507º Chars dorm or the mobilized unit. He remembered having played with De Gaulle, Philippe, when he was a child.
He received his baccalaureate title in 1939 and, after the war, a degree in History of Sorbonne. In 1947, he joined the religious congregation of the sisters of San Francisco Xavier. In 1959, the Congregation sent it to Abidjan, in Ivory Coast, to begin a school of girls in cooperation with the progressive government of Félix Houuprouët-Boigny, the first president of the country.
The school opened in 1962, and Mrs. The Vasselot remained its director until 1988, when she returned to France. The Ivory newspaper, the fraternal Matin recently wrote that “under the illuminated direction of MME. The Vasselot, this establishment, much more than a school, became the key institution that forged the female elite of this country.”
No immediate family survives EM. The Vasselot. His funeral mass was held on Tuesday in the cathedral of Saint-Louis-Desvaluros in Paris, an honor reserved for the war heroes of France.
In November, while Mr. Macron was decorating her with the National Order of Merit in the Palace of Elysée, she responded with reinforcing words: “What I want to tell the young people” Never give up, never give up, any difficulty you face. “
