Marie was born in 1923 the daughter of a French factory owner named Abel Sailley and his wife Josephine Mayer Sailley. She met and married Bengt Danielsson of the Kon-Tiki expedition in 1948 in Lima, Peru. They lived in Raroia, the atoll on which the raft made landfall from 1949 to 1952 and in 1953 they moved to Tahiti. Marie and her husband Bengt were particularly outspoken critics of French nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls. Marie and Bengt received the Right Livelihood Award for their campaigning work in 1991. The Danielsson's 1974 book Moruroa Mon Amour is credited with shaping world opinion against the French tests, which ended in 1996. Their daughter Maruia (1952-1972) died from cancer. Bengt died in July 1997 and was buried at Ostra Tollstad Church in Mjolby Municipality, Sweden. Marie died in 2003 at the age of 79 in French Polynesia. Following funeral services there, her remains were sent to Sweden and she rests by her husbands side at the Ostra Tollstad church in Ostergotland .
Marie was born in 1923 the daughter of a French factory owner named Abel Sailley and his wife Josephine Mayer Sailley. She met and married Bengt Danielsson of the Kon-Tiki expedition in 1948 in Lima, Peru. They lived in Raroia, the atoll on which the raft made landfall from 1949 to 1952 and in 1953 they moved to Tahiti. Marie and her husband Bengt were particularly outspoken critics of French nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls. Marie and Bengt received the Right Livelihood Award for their campaigning work in 1991. The Danielsson's 1974 book Moruroa Mon Amour is credited with shaping world opinion against the French tests, which ended in 1996. Their daughter Maruia (1952-1972) died from cancer. Bengt died in July 1997 and was buried at Ostra Tollstad Church in Mjolby Municipality, Sweden. Marie died in 2003 at the age of 79 in French Polynesia. Following funeral services there, her remains were sent to Sweden and she rests by her husbands side at the Ostra Tollstad church in Ostergotland .
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