Mr Ponticelli was born on 7 December 1897 in Emilia Romagna, northern Italy.
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Mr Sarkozy said there would be a national day of remembrance for France's war dead in the coming days as he marked Mr Ponticelli's death.
In many ways Mr Ponticelli was not typical of the poilus.
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Mr Ponticelli, who lived with his daughter in a southern suburb of Paris, had initially refused a government offer of a state funeral, the AFP news agency reported.
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