Louisette Texier

Louisette Texier, born Arpine Hovanessian (; 18 February 1913 – 20 July 2021) was a French resistant and racecar driver. She was one of the last remaining survivors of the Armenian genocide.

Biography Hovanessian was born into an Armenian family in the Ottoman Empire. Her father was assassinated in 1915 during the Armenian genocide and she was saved by her mother and placed in an orphanage in Istanbul.

Texier left boarding school at the age of 15 "to become a dancer in Parisian cabarets and live without constraint". She ranked 2nd in the 1963 competition, driving a Jaguar Mark 2. She was selected for the "Daring Armenian Women" project, which covered distinguished women of Armenian origin.

Texier died in La Romieu on 20 July 2021 at the age of 108. Her funeral was held at the .