Jeannine Belleguic was a private French woman connected to Quimperlé in Finistère, Brittany. Public memorial and funeral records identify her under the surname Belléguic, connect that name with the birth surname Bleuzen, and record her death on April 18, 2025. Those records place her funeral at Notre-Dame de Quimperlé on April 25, 2025, followed by burial at Saint-David cemetery. Beyond these facts, very little of her personal biography is publicly documented. I found no reliable evidence that she was a public figure, celebrity, or widely reported professional personality. For that reason, the most accurate article about her must distinguish documented facts from assumptions and explain why the online record remains limited.
Who was Jeannine Belleguic?
Jeannine Belleguic was a private French woman whose name became searchable through obituary, funeral, and online memorial records rather than through a public career. The strongest publicly accessible sources connect her with Quimperlé, a town in southern Finistère, Brittany, and record her death on April 18, 2025.
The available records focus on her name, family relationship, funeral arrangements, and regional connection. They do not provide the kind of detailed life story readers might expect from a traditional biography, and no reliable public career or substantial news archive is available.
I approached this search as a record-verification exercise rather than a celebrity profile because several websites repeat similar wording while only a few lead back to an actual death notice or memorial record.
The name Jeannine Belleguic and the surname Bleuzen
One of the most useful facts in the public record is the appearance of the surname Bleuzen. Funeral listings identify her as Jeannine BELLÉGUIC née BLEUZEN. In French notices, “née” generally introduces a woman’s birth or maiden surname. In practical terms, the record connects the name she used in the notice, Belléguic, with the family name Bleuzen.
There is a small wording issue that readers should not ignore. One published notice uses the formal expression “Madame Jean-Charles BELLÉGUIC née Jeannine BLEUZEN,” while other memorial pages present her more simply as Jeannine BELLÉGUIC née BLEUZEN. I would not treat that difference as evidence of two separate people without checking the date, place, family details, and funeral information together.
The spelling also appears in two forms: Belleguic and Belléguic. Search engines may treat the accented and unaccented versions as related, but genealogy searches should use both. French records do not always preserve accents, capitalization, or married-name formatting consistently across newspapers, funeral homes, civil databases, and family-tree websites.
What the public records confirm
The most dependable information comes from funeral and memorial pages published after her death. Dans Nos Coeurs lists Jeannine BELLÉGUIC as deceased on April 18, 2025 and associates the notice with Quimperlé, Guidel, and Lorient. The notice also identifies her birth surname as Bleuzen and gives information about her surviving family.
Simplifia independently reproduces the central funeral details. It identifies Jeannine BELLÉGUIC née BLEUZEN, records April 18, 2025 as the date of death, and lists the religious ceremony at Notre-Dame de Quimperlé on April 25, 2025, at 2:30 p.m.
Cybille also displays the memorial record as 1931–2025 and records April 18, 2025, as the date she died. Its page states that the online memorial space was offered by the funeral establishment serving the Quimperlé area.
The following table separates the information that is reasonably supported from details that should not be presented as established fact.
Jeannine Belleguic’s age and timeline
The online memorial record presents her life as 1931–2025. An indexed Ouest-France death notice reports that she died at age 93. The available funeral pages do not, however, establish a complete birth date in the same way they establish the death date.
That difference is worth explaining. A year range can be reliable enough for a short biography, but it should not automatically be expanded into an exact day and month. I found several newer biography-style pages repeating a precise birth date and additional given names. I could not verify those details in the accessible funeral notices, so I have not treated them as confirmed.
Her documented timeline is therefore short:
This is not a complete life history. It is a documented public-record timeline. Adding invented milestones would make the article sound fuller while making it less trustworthy.
Her connection to Quimperlé, Brittany
Quimperlé is a town in southern Finistère, in the Brittany region of northwestern France. The municipality’s official website describes it as a town in Sud-Finistère, while regional tourism information places it in a landscape shaped by the meeting of the Isole and Ellé rivers, which form the Laïta.
That setting helps explain why the death notice uses several nearby place names. Quimperlé is the clearest location connected with the ceremony and burial, while Guidel and Lorient also appear in the notice’s regional heading. A place named in a funeral notice is not automatically the person’s birthplace, permanent residence, or place of death.
For readers researching Jeannine Belleguic, Quimperlé is best treated as the central geographic anchor—not as proof of every stage of her life.
What the funeral notice reveals about her family
The family information is one of the most meaningful parts of the record. The notice refers to three children, six grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren. It also mentions a sister and other relatives. This confirms that Jeannine Belleguic was remembered within a large family network, even though the public record does not offer a detailed narrative about her family life.
I have intentionally kept this information at a general level. A death notice is a family communication, not an invitation to reconstruct every living relative’s identity. Readers who have a legitimate genealogical reason to investigate the family should work from the original notice and official records rather than copy names across low-quality biography pages.
The notice also thanks a companion, medical professionals, a residence, and care staff. Those references show that the family acknowledged a care network, but they do not prove a diagnosis or particular lifestyle.
Funeral arrangements and memorial record
The funeral service was scheduled for Friday, April 25, 2025, at 2:30 p.m. at Église Notre-Dame de Quimperlé. The published notice states that burial followed at Saint-David cemetery. Simplifia also records the church, time, and Quimperlé location, which gives useful cross-source confirmation.
Cybille preserves a separate memorial page with options for condolences, flowers, a commemorative tree, and a collaborative memory album. That page is not a biography, but it is important evidence for understanding how the name became visible online. Funeral homes and memorial platforms often create searchable pages that remain indexed long after the service has taken place.
My reading is that this memorial trail—not a sudden public event—best explains why people may search for Jeannine Belleguic. The conclusion is an inference from the timing and type of the available records, not a claim that a search engine has published a formal explanation.
Was Jeannine Belleguic a public figure?
Nothing in the strongest accessible records suggests that she was a celebrity, politician, business leader, academic, or media personality. The pages identify her through death notices and memorial information. They do not document a public career or a body of published work.
That matters because a search result can create a misleading impression. When several websites publish pages around an unusual name, readers may assume that the person must have been famous. In this case, the evidence points to a private individual whose name entered wider search visibility through a public obituary record.
The competitor article I reviewed describes a possible connection between the family and local industrial history, including the Papeteries de Mauduit. Quimperlé genuinely has a documented paper-making heritage: the French Ministry of Culture’s heritage database describes the development of the Kerisole paper works and their importance to the town’s industrial history.
However, regional industrial history is not proof that Jeannine Belleguic worked at the paper mill or that a named relative held a particular professional position. I would present that history as context only unless a family record directly makes the connection.
Why online information about her is so limited
Jeannine Belleguic appears to have lived a private life, so her record is thinner than that of a public figure. The most visible pages are not necessarily the most authoritative: a memorial page may contain the original notice while later articles simply paraphrase it.
For that reason, I would rank the available evidence in this order:
- The original or near-original funeral notice.
- A memorial page maintained by the funeral establishment or a recognized obituary service.
- French administrative records, where access and legal rules permit.
- Regional archives and newspaper indexes.
- Secondary biography pages, which should be checked against the records above.
The French national statistics office, INSEE, explains that its deceased-person files are built from information received from municipalities. It also warns that the files can contain omissions or errors and should not be treated as an absolute certification of vital status.
That warning applies here: records are valuable, but they still need careful interpretation.
Avoiding confusion with other people named Jeannine Belleguic
Surname-only searches can produce false matches. I found a separate French death record for another Jeannine Belleguic who died in 1987 at age 46. That record is associated with different places and should not be merged with the woman whose 2025 funeral was held in Quimperlé.
This is the most practical lesson for genealogical research: never match people on a name alone. Compare at least three identifiers, such as:
- Full name and spelling variation
- Birth or death year
- Place connected with the record
- Birth surname or married surname
- Relatives named in the notice
- Funeral date or cemetery
In this case, the combination of Belléguic, Bleuzen, Quimperlé, April 18, 2025, and the April 25 funeral creates a much stronger identity match than the name by itself.
What remains unknown about Jeannine Belleguic
The public record does not reliably establish several details that people may want to know. These include her education, profession, exact birth date, full residence history, personal interests, marriage date, and the circumstances of her earlier life.
The absence of information is not evidence that these parts of her life did not exist. It only means they are not documented in the sources I could verify. A high-quality article should say that plainly instead of filling the gaps with assumptions about her generation, personality, or social role.
The same caution applies to statements about family wealth, industrial employment, civic involvement, or a “quiet family-oriented lifestyle.” Those descriptions may sound plausible, but plausibility is not documentation.
How to research the family further
If you are researching Jeannine Belleguic for family-history reasons, start with the funeral notice and record every spelling exactly as it appears. Search both “Belleguic” and “Belléguic,” then add “Bleuzen,” “Quimperlé,” “Guidel,” “Lorient,” and the 2025 date.
Next, compare the memorial pages rather than assuming that each one is a separate source. Look for consistent dates, places, surnames, relatives, and ceremony details. Preserve the original French wording and note whether each source is an index, transcription, or scanned document.
For older family research, the Archives départementales du Finistère may be more useful than general search results. Local archives can lead from a death notice to earlier civil registrations, marriage records, or other historical documents where access rules allow.
The key is to build a chain of evidence. One obituary can identify a person; a second can confirm the date and place; earlier records can establish relationships.
Frequently asked questions
Who was Jeannine Belleguic?
She was a private French woman connected with Quimperlé in Brittany and identified in public funeral records as Jeannine Belléguic née Bleuzen.
When did Jeannine Belleguic die?
The funeral and memorial records state that she died on April 18, 2025, at age 93.
Where was her funeral held?
Her funeral took place at Notre-Dame de Quimperlé on April 25, 2025, followed by burial at Saint-David cemetery.
Did Jeannine Belleguic have children?
The published notice refers to three children, six grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren, but it does not provide a complete public biography of the family.
Was Jeannine Belleguic famous?
The available evidence does not show that she was a public figure. Her online visibility appears to come from obituary and memorial records.
Final perspective
The verified story of Jeannine Belleguic is narrower than many search-optimized pages suggest. She was a private woman associated with Quimperlé, recorded as having died on April 18, 2025, at age 93. Her family, funeral, and burial details add context, but they do not justify inventing a career or personal history.
If you are researching her as part of a family tree, use this article as a starting point and return to the original memorial notices, local archives, and civil records. The most reliable next step is not to search for more repeated summaries; it is to locate the earliest document behind them and compare every detail carefully.
Evelyn Hartwell is a biography writer and historical researcher with over 5 years of experience exploring the lives, achievements, and personal journeys of notable individuals. She focuses on creating well-researched, engaging biographies by analyzing reliable sources and presenting accurate life stories with meaningful context.
