Who Is Jeanne Pouchain? French Woman Fighting To Prove She Is Alive

Jeanne Pouchain was declared dead in 2017 owing to a mistake by a local court. She appeared in news all over again after another court agreed to look at her case. As of now, her struggle to prove her livelihood continues.

Pouchain received a letter from a court four years ago that declared she was dead. It also mentioned that her family had to pay the money she had owed during her lifetime.

A former employee of Pouchain's cleaning business reportedly launched a complicated legal procedure following which the error arose. Although Pouchain's family assumed that the error could have been corrected easily initially, the four-year struggle of proving her alive status has been dreadful.

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Who Is Jeanne Pouchain?

Officially declared dead by a French court in 2017, Pouchain has been trying for the past few years to prove to officialdom that she is in fact very much alive. She also told them that the experience has been devastating.

Pouchain is a 59-year-old French woman from a small village near Lyon, in south-east France who is currently unable to work and afraid to leave her house because she had no valid ID or social security number. Reportedly, she is now living as a recluse owing to the mentioned reasons.