Irma Rapuzzi (12 April 1910 – 3 April 2018) was a French politician.

Biography

She was born on 12 April 1910 in Cadolive, as the daughter of a miner. She began her career in politics in 1947 when she became a municipal councilor in

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. After this she was elected senator of

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and went on to hold many other political positions in her life. She was the godmother of French politician

Sylvie Andrieux Sylvie Andrieux (born 15 December 1961, in Marseille) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, from 1997 to 2016 and sat initially as a member of '' Socialiste, radical, citoyen et d ...

. She

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in April 2010. Rapuzzi died in April 2018 in her home, nine days shy of her 108th birthday.

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