List of French supercentenarians
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This is a list of verified French
supercentenarian
s (people from France
who have attained the age of at least 110 years). There have been 123 verified supercentenarian
s from France. The oldest person ever from France was Jeanne Calment
, who is the oldest verified person ever and died in 1997 aged 122 years 164 days. As of , there are 8 verified living supercentenarians, along with 6 unverified in France, the oldest of whom is Marcelle Narbonne
age .
research, such as the Gerontology Research Group
. Those listed as 'pending' have provided at least one document supporting the claimed age but not the three necessary for validation. Those that are 'unverified' have provided no documents to support the age claimed.
a Narbonne was born in French Algeria
. It is now Algeria
.
a Primout was born in French Algeria
. It is now Algeria
.
b Narbonne was born in French Algeria
. It is now Algeria
.
c Petit was born in Lorraine
, which was then part of the German Empire
. It is now in France
.
d Trompeter was born in Alsace
, which was then part of the German Empire
. It is now in France
.
e Fourcade was born in French Algeria
. It is now Algeria
.
f Aubertin was born in Lorraine
, which was then mostly part of the German Empire
, but the part where she was born was still a part of France
(Relanges
).
g Hue was born in French Tunisia. It is now Tunisia
.
h Dott was born in Alsace
, which was then part of the German Empire
. It is now in France
.
i Mueller was born in the French part of Alsace
, which is today the territory of Belfort
.
j Zeisler was born in Lorraine
, which was then part of the German Empire
. It is now in France
.
k Meyer was born in Alsace
, which was then part of the German Empire
. It is now in France
.
when she died at 112 years 236 days old. Péré-Pucheu was more than two years older than Germany's oldest person and well ahead of the UK's oldest person, born in 1895. She was a month older than the oldest persons in Portugal and Italy, and more than a year ahead of Spain's oldest-known person. Only fellow Frenchwoman and Parisian, Camille Loiseau, 114, ranked higher among verified living European supercentenarian
s. Anne lived in southwest France.
. She achieved the position of France's oldest woman, known in France as the Doyenne de France, on the death of Anne Primout on 26 March 2005, who also died at age 114.
She was the oldest verified person living in Europe since the 28 December 2005 death of again 114-year-old Italian Virginia Dighero, and became the fifth oldest verified living person in the world on the death of 115-year-old American Susie Gibson
on 16 February 2006. Madame Loiseau was succeeded as doyenne of France by Marie-Simone Capony
, aged 112 at the time, though the title was first given to fellow 112-year-old Marie Mornet Robin who lived in the western town of Poitou-Charentes
, but was three weeks younger than Capony.
The French longevity recordholder
, also the oldest verified person in history
, is Jeanne Calment
, who died in 1997 at the age of 122.
Following the 28 January 2007 death of 114-year-old American Emma Tillman
, Camille Loiseau was confirmed as the oldest verified person from the year 1892 (in other words, although born in the same year, the ten+ months between their births was longer than the five months between their deaths, and thus Tillman never outaged Loiseau).
She was born in Paris and never moved out of the city until her hospitalization in 1998 due to a fall. She was the youngest of nine children, four boys and five girls. On 13 August 1910 she married René Frédéric Chadal, although their marriage lasted only 15 days. As is common in France, Camille Loiseau chose not to use her husband's last name.
She had celebrated her last birthday "with a little champagne", and was known right to the end of her life for her humour and flirtatiousness. She died in the Hôpital Paul-Brousse
in Villejuif
.
and the second-oldest person in France
, very close behind Marie-Simone Capony
, when she died at age 112 years 276 days. She was born in Lessart and died in L'Isle Jourdain. At the time of her passing she also ranked third-oldest in Western Europe
and 13th-oldest in the world.
since the death of 113-year-old Julia Sinédia-Cazour
on 6 October 2005, until her own death at age 112. Living in Guadeloupe
, she was the third-oldest French person and the 19th oldest person in the world. According to the Gerontology Research Group
, she was succeeded by Marie-Louise Lhuillier of New Caledonia
.
in France, at 110 years of age, from the death of 111-year-old Maurice Floquet
on 10 November 2006 until his own death over nine months later. He also became the seventh French man to become a supercentenarian
. He was the eighth-oldest man in the world, and the third-oldest in Europe. He never fought in the First World War
, however, so he was not a poilu
. Louis de Cazenave
was the oldest living French World War I veteran
and, at 109, took over as oldest living Frenchman until his own death on 20 January 2008.
, the second-oldest person
in France and 14th-oldest in the world, at age 112 years 185 days when she died, in addition to being the oldest ever person to have lived in New Caledonia
. She became the oldest person in the Southern Hemisphere
after the death of Australian Myra Nicholson
on 20 September 2007.
Born in Nouméa
when it only had 6,000 inhabitants (it has over 100,000 now), she taught at the University of Sydney
and also worked at a bank. She outlived the average life expectancy of women in 1900 by over 60 years, but she was still approximately ten years behind Jeanne Calment
, the oldest person ever and also from France. It should be noted, moreover, that Lhuillier descended from French colonists (not the native population) and that New Caledonia is considered to be 'part of France' by the French government.
and the doyenne of France, the second-oldest person in Europe and the fourth-oldest in the world
from the 22 March 2008 death of Arbella Ewing
from the United States, until Solignac's death two months later. She was born in Vorey
and was living in a retirement home there at the time of her death, aged 113 years 261 days. Her daughter, who had lived in the same nursing home as she had, died on 20 September 2007 at the age of 91.
French people
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supercentenarian
Supercentenarian
A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....
s (people from France
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
who have attained the age of at least 110 years). There have been 123 verified supercentenarian
Supercentenarian
A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....
s from France. The oldest person ever from France was Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Louise Calment was a French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human life span in history, living to the age of . She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, and outlived both her daughter and grandson. She became especially well known from the age of 113, when the...
, who is the oldest verified person ever and died in 1997 aged 122 years 164 days. As of , there are 8 verified living supercentenarians, along with 6 unverified in France, the oldest of whom is Marcelle Narbonne
Marcelle Narbonne
Marcelle Narbonne is the oldest living person in France and in Europe. She is also the 9th-oldest person in the world. She and Marie-Thérèse Bardet are the last 2 verified living French people born before 1900.-Biography:...
age .
Living French supercentenarians
Below is a list of the oldest living people from France. Those listed as 'verified' have been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevityLongevity
The word "longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography or known as "long life", especially when it concerns someone or something lasting longer than expected ....
research, such as the Gerontology Research Group
Gerontology Research Group
The Gerontology Research Group was started in 1990, and is a global eGroup of researchers in gerontology, some of who also meet monthly at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. The primary function of the group is to further gerontology research, with the objective of reversing or retarding aging...
. Those listed as 'pending' have provided at least one document supporting the claimed age but not the three necessary for validation. Those that are 'unverified' have provided no documents to support the age claimed.
| Rank | Name | Sex | Birth date | Age as of | Region or Country of birth | Region of residence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marcelle Narbonne Marcelle Narbonne Marcelle Narbonne is the oldest living person in France and in Europe. She is also the 9th-oldest person in the world. She and Marie-Thérèse Bardet are the last 2 verified living French people born before 1900.-Biography:... |
F | 25 March 1898 | Algeria | Languedoc-Roussillon | |
| 2 | Marie-Thérèse Bardet | F | 2 June 1898 | Bretagne | Pays de la Loire | |
| 3 | Paule Bronzini | F | 7 July 1900 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | |
| Philomène Courbon | F | 15 September 1900 | Auvergne | Rhône-Alpes | ||
| 4 | Maria Richard | F | 28 November 1900 | Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... |
Languedoc-Roussillon | |
| 5 | Eugénie Dauzat | F | 6 December 1900 | Auvergne | Auvergne | |
| 6 | Olive Deschamps | F | 22 February 1901 | Centre | Centre | |
| 7 | Émilienne Nacry | F | 10 March 1901 | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | |
| 8 | Madeleine Mièze | F | 28 April 1901 | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | |
| Olympe Amaury | F | 19 June 1901 | Centre | Centre | ||
| Jeanne Rannou | F | 14 September 1901 | Bretagne | Ile-de-France | ||
| Odette Ambühler | F | 17 September 1901 | Pays de la Loire | Pays de la Loire | ||
| Suzanne Hallet | F | 17 September 1901 | Centre | Centre | ||
| Eudoxie Baboul | F | 30 September 1901 | French Guiana | French Guiana |
a Narbonne was born in French Algeria
French Algeria
French Algeria lasted from 1830 to 1962, under a variety of governmental systems. From 1848 until independence, the whole Mediterranean region of Algeria was administered as an integral part of France, much like Corsica and Réunion are to this day. The vast arid interior of Algeria, like the rest...
. It is now Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
.
French supercentenarians
| Rank | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age | Region or Country of birth | Region of death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeanne Calment Jeanne Calment Jeanne Louise Calment was a French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human life span in history, living to the age of . She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, and outlived both her daughter and grandson. She became especially well known from the age of 113, when the... |
F | 21 February 1875 | 4 August 1997 | 122 years, 164 days | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| 2 | Marie Brémont Marie Brémont Marie Marthe Augustine Lemaitre Brémont was a French supercentenarian and the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death. This means she was the oldest living person at the turn of the century, and the new millenium, and therefore the person with the earliest... |
F | 25 April 1886 | 6 June 2001 | 115 years, 42 days | Pays de la Loire | Pays de la Loire |
| 3 | Eugénie Blanchard Eugénie Blanchard Anne Eugénie Blanchard was a French supercentenarian, who at the age of was the oldest living person at the time of her death. She became the recognised titleholder upon the death of Japanese supercentenarian Kama Chinen on 2 May 2010... |
F | 16 February 1896 | 4 November 2010 | 114 years, 261 days | Saint Barthélemy | Saint Barthélemy |
| 4 | Lydie Vellard | F | 18 March 1875 | 17 September 1989 | 114 years, 183 days | Pays de la Loire | Pays de la Loire |
| 5 | Camille Loiseau | F | 13 February 1892 | 12 August 2006 | 114 years, 180 days | Î-de-France | Î-de-France |
| 6 | Anne Primout | F | 5 October 1890 | 26 March 2005 | 114 years, 172 days | Algeria | Languedoc-Roussillon |
| 7 | Luce Maced Luce Maced Luce Maced was the oldest person to have ever lived in French territory, aged 113 years and 299 days. She was the fourth oldest person in the world at the time of her death and the sixth oldest French person on record. Maced was born in Guadeloupe and died in Martinique... |
F | 2 May 1886 | 25 February 2000 | 113 years, 299 days | Guadeloupe Guadeloupe Guadeloupe is an archipelago located in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres and a population of 400,000. It is the first overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe... |
Martinique Martinique Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of . Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados... |
| 8 | Clémentine Solignac | F | 7 September 1894 | 25 May 2008 | 113 years, 261 days | Auvergne | Auvergne |
| 9 | Marcelle Narbonne Marcelle Narbonne Marcelle Narbonne is the oldest living person in France and in Europe. She is also the 9th-oldest person in the world. She and Marie-Thérèse Bardet are the last 2 verified living French people born before 1900.-Biography:... |
F | 25 March 1898 | Living | Algeria | Living in Languedoc-Roussillon | |
| 10 | Germaine Haye Germaine Haye Germaine Haye née Germain was a supercentenarian and France's oldest living person for about a year, following the death of 115-year-old Marie Brémont on June 6, 2001 until her own death at age 113 years 190 days... |
F | 10 October 1888 | 18 April 2002 | 113 years, 190 days | Basse-Normandie | Basse-Normandie |
| 11 | Marie-Simone Capony Marie-Simone Capony Marie-Simone Capony was, at age 113, the oldest living person in France for more than a year and a retired teacher. She became the French doyenne following the death of 114-year-old Camille Loiseau in August 2006. At the time of her death, aged 113 years and 185 days, due to heart failure, she... |
F | 14 March 1894 | 15 September 2007 | 113 years, 185 days | Rhône-Alpes | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| 12 | Marie-Thérèse Bardet | F | 2 June 1898 | Living | Bretagne | Living in Pays de la Loire | |
| 13 | Mathilde Aussant Mathilde Aussant Mathilde Aussant was a French supercentenarian who was at the time of her death the oldest verified person in France.-Biography:... |
F | 27 February 1898 | 23 July 2011 | 113 years, 146 days | Pays de la Loire | Centre |
| 14 | Julia Sinédia-Cazour Julia Sinédia-Cazour Marie-Julia Sinédia-Cazour was the oldest African supercentenarian, oldest person from the French possession of Réunion and is the tenth-oldest French person on record. She married in 1915. At the time of her death she was France's second-oldest person and the eleventh-oldest person in the world... |
F | 12 July 1892 | 6 October 2005 | 113 years, 86 days | Réunion | Réunion |
| 15 | Pauline Chabanny | F | 20 August 1881 | 13 August 1994 | 112 years, 358 days | Centre | Île-de-France |
| 16 | Jeanne Dumaine | F | 19 March 1886 | 3 January 1999 | 112 years, 290 days | Île-de-France | Île-de-France |
| 17 | Marie Mornet | F | 4 April 1894 | 5 January 2007 | 112 years, 276 days | Poitou-Charentes | Poitou-Charentes |
| 18 | Joséphine Choquet | F | 6 June 1878 | 14 February 1991 | 112 years, 253 days | Bretagne | Picardie |
| 19 | Lucie Péré-Pucheu | F | 13 August 1893 | 6 April 2006 | 112 years, 236 days | Aquitane | Aquitane |
| 20 | Marie-Louise Lhuillier | F | 26 June 1895 | 28 December 2007 | 112 years, 185 days | New Caledonia | New Caledonia |
| 21 | Marguerite Petit | F | 3 July 1883 | 21 December 1995 | 112 years, 171 days | Lorraine | Lorraine |
| 22 | Eugénie Roux | F | 24 January 1874 | 20 June 1986 | 112 years, 147 days | Franche-Comté | Rhône-Alpes |
| 23 | Yvonne Bory | F | 14 March 1891 | 7 August 2003 | 112 years, 146 days | ? | Bretagne |
| 24 | Jeanne Colas | F | 9 June 1886 | 15 October 1998 | 112 years, 128 days | ? | ? |
| 25 | Agnès Fagoo | F | 19 December 1894 | 12 April 2007 | 112 years, 114 days | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | Nord-Pas-de-Calais |
| 26 | Constance Cariou | F | 8 May 1895 | 29 August 2007 | 112 years, 113 days | Pays de la Loire | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| 27 | Célestine Colombeau | F | 17 February 1884 | 9 May 1996 | 112 years, 82 days | ? | ? |
| 28 | Marie-Louise Jeancard | F | 5 September 1876 | 25 November 1988 | 112 years, 81 days | ? | ? |
| 29 | Augustine Tessier | F | 2 January 1869 | 8 March 1981 | 112 years, 65 days | ? | Languedoc-Roussillon |
| 30 | Mathilde Octavie Tafna | F | 16 March 1895 | 1 May 2007 | 112 years, 46 days | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe |
| 31 | Olympe Pidancet | F | 24 January 1897 | 19 February 2009 | 112 years, 26 days | Bourgogne | Rhône-Alpes |
| 32 | Blanche Marie Grosdidier | F | 3 October 1889 | 10 October 2001 | 112 years, 7 days | ? | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| 33 | Marie-Hélène Chanteperdrix | F | 5 March 1886 | 9 March 1998 | 112 years, 4 days | ? | Nord-Pas-de-Calais |
| 34 | Louise Fleury-Mallet | F | 8 March 1888 | 9 March 2000 | 112 years, 1 day | ? | ? |
| 35 | Clothilde Roy | F | 23 October 1889 | 13 October 2001 | 111 years, 355 days | ? | ? |
| 36 | Marie Combéléran | F | 8 June 1889 | 23 May 2001 | 111 years, 349 days | ? | ? |
| 37 | Jeannette Gayraud | F | 12 May 1892 | 31 March 2004 | 111 years, 324 days | ? | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| 38 | Zoé Vérot | F | 15 February 1884 | 4 January 1996 | 111 years, 323 days | ? | ? |
| 39 | Germaine Stadler | F | 29 March 1893 | 14 February 2005 | 111 years, 322 days | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | ? |
| 40 | Maurice Floquet Maurice Floquet Maurice Noël Floquet was, at age 111, France's oldest man on record and was one of the last surviving French veterans of World War I. He was, at the age of 111 years and 320 days, France's longest-lived soldier ever. Moreover, Maurice was France's oldest living man for more than four years... |
M | 25 December 1894 | 10 November 2006 | 111 years, 320 days | Champagne-Ardenne | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| 41 | Félicité Jandia | F | 12 February 1881 | 7 December 1992 | 111 years, 299 days | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe |
| 42 | Mathilde Gauchou | F | 19 March 1879 | 30 December 1990 | 111 years, 286 days | ? | ? |
| 43 | Pauline Sevaille | F | 20 November 1890 | 29 August 2002 | 111 years, 282 days | ? | ? |
| 44 | Marie-Virginie Duhem | F | 2 August 1866 | 25 April 1978 | 111 years, 266 days | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | Nord-Pas-de-Calais |
| 45 | Marie-Louise Bernède | F | 6 April 1894 | 11 December 2005 | 111 years, 249 days | ? | ? |
| 46 | Marie-Louise Lambert | F | 9 April 1888 | 11 December 1999 | 111 years, 246 days | ? | ? |
| Mathilde Gratry | F | 10 May 1896 | 10 January 2008 | 111 years, 245 days | Rhône-Alpes | Rhône-Alpes | |
| 47 | Catherine Trompeter | F | 26 March 1895 | 18 November 2006 | 111 years, 235 days | Alsace | Lorraine |
| 48 | Henriette Mégévand | F | 24 June 1887 | 7 January 1999 | 111 years, 197 days | ? | ? |
| 49 | Catherine Soiron | F | 31 July 1899 | 31 January 2011 | 111 years, 184 days | ? | Picardie |
| 50 | Maria Bigue | F | 10 September 1886 | 12 March 1998 | 111 years, 183 days | ? | ? |
| 51 | Emile Fourcade | M | 29 July 1884 | 29 December 1995 | 111 years, 153 days | Algeria | Rhône-Alpes |
| 52 | Paule Bronzini | F | 7 July 1900 | Living | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Living in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | |
| 53 | Maria-Anna Higelin | F | 18 November 1882 | 21 March 1994 | 111 years, 123 days | ? | ? |
| 54 | Blanche Aubertin | F | 23 January 1900 | 24 April 2011 | 111 years, 91 days | Lorraine | Lorraine |
| 55 | Marthe Gojon | F | 1 November 1893 | 28 November 2004 | 111 years, 27 days | Bourgogne | Rhône-Alpes |
| 56 | Berthe Sadron | F | 18 February 1888 | 27 February 1999 | 111 years, 9 days | ? | ? |
| 57 | Maria Richard | F | 28 November 1900 | Living | Belgium | Living in Languedoc-Roussillon | |
| 58 | Eugénie Dauzat | F | 6 December 1900 | Living | Auvergne | Living in Auvergne | |
| 59 | Marguerite Bellion | F | 12 February 1891 | 29 January 2002 | 110 years, 351 days | ? | ? |
| 60 | Emilie Taillard | F | 16 September 1900 | 31 August 2011 | 110 years, 349 days | Franche-Comté | Franche-Comté |
| 61 | Madeleine Delmotte | F | 20 April 1896 | 31 March 2007 | 110 years, 345 days | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | Nord-Pas-de-Calais |
| 62 | Elisabeth Seube | F | 8 April 1889 | 6 March 2000 | 110 years, 333 days | ? | ? |
| 63 | Aline Beslay | F | 17 June 1898 | 6 May 2009 | 110 years, 323 days | Centre | Centre |
| 64 | Jeanne Violette | F | 12 January 1889 | 27 November 1999 | 110 years, 319 days | ? | ? |
| 65 | Marie-Louise Thurneyssen | F | 21 August 1888 | 27 June 1999 | 110 years, 310 days | ? | ? |
| 66 | Marie-Isabelle Tuffal | F | 14 January 1889 | 12 November 1999 | 110 years, 302 days | ? | ? |
| 67 | Frédérique Noël | F | 19 June 1868 | 14 April 1979 | 110 years, 299 days | ? | ? |
| 68 | Jeanne Gagnard | F | 29 October 1899 | 14 August 2010 | 110 years, 289 days | Rhône-Alpes | Rhône-Alpes |
| Marie Margueritte Robert | F | 9 January 1893 | 19 October 2003 | 110 years, 283 days | ? | ? | |
| 69 | Olive Deschamps | F | 22 February 1901 | Living | Centre | Living in Centre | |
| 70 | Mathilde Rouené | F | 13 August 1895 | 20 May 2006 | 110 years, 280 days | ? | ? |
| 71 | Caroline Campistron | F | 27 May 1867 | 2 March 1978 | 110 years, 279 days | ? | Poitou-Charentes |
| 72 | Émilienne Nacry | F | 10 March 1901 | Living | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | Living in Nord-Pas-de-Calais | |
| 73 | Marie Lemoigne | F | 18 May 1899 | 31 January 2010 | 110 years, 258 days | Haute-Normandie | Basse-Normandie |
| 74 | Henri Pérignon | M | 14 October 1879 | 18 June 1990 | 110 years, 247 days | Basse-Normandie | ? |
| 75 | Alexis Daigneau | M | 4 August 1890 | 3 April 2001 | 110 years, 242 days | Poitou-Charentes | Poitou-Charentes |
| Marie Audy | F | 29 March 1899 | 24 November 2009 | 110 years, 240 days | Aquitaine | Aquitaine | |
| 76 | Jeanne Berget | F | 13 July 1898 | 6 March 2009 | 110 years, 236 days | Bourgogne | Bourgogne |
| 77 | Marie-Céline Maissonniaud | F | 26 October 1876 | 17 June 1987 | 110 years, 234 days | ? | ? |
| Hélène Carrion | F | 14 October 1898 | 5 June 2009 | 110 years, 234 days | Bourgogne | Bourgogne | |
| 79 | Marie Prodhomme | F | 14 June 1900 | 30 January 2011 | 110 years, 230 days | Pays de la Loire | Pays de la Loire |
| 80 | Marcelle-Jeanne Colas | F | 28 July 1897 | 11 March 2008 | 110 years, 227 days | ? | Pays de la Loire |
| 81 | Anne-Marie Héméry | F | 25 July 1889 | 6 March 2000 | 110 years, 225 days | ? | ? |
| 82 | Lucia Damiano | F | 4 August 1900 | 16 March 2011 | 110 years, 224 days | Italy | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| 83 | Madeleine Mièze | F | 28 April 1901 | Living | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | Living in Nord-Pas-de-Calais | |
| Jeanne Hue | F | 2 October 1895 | 5 May 2006 | 110 years, 215 days | Tunisia | ? | |
| 84 | Bernard Delhom | M | 9 July 1885 | 7 February 1996 | 110 years, 213 days | Aquitane | Île-de-France |
| 85 | Maria Laborie | F | 26 April 1887 | 22 November 1997 | 110 years, 210 days | ? | ? |
| 86 | Aimé Avignon | M | 2 February 1897 | 23 August 2007 | 110 years, 202 days | Languedoc-Roussillon | Languedoc-Roussillon |
| 87 | Anna Lacour | F | 5 July 1900 | 18 January 2011 | 110 years, 197 days | Aquitane | Aquitane |
| 88 | Juliette Baudoin | F | 19 February 1883 | 24 August 1993 | 110 years, 186 days | ? | ? |
| 89 | Caroline Dott | F | 5 February 1900 | 8 August 2010 | 110 years, 184 days | Alsace | Alsace |
| 90 | Hélène Cazes | F | 29 September 1899 | 25 March 2010 | 110 years, 177 days | Île-de-France | Poitou-Charentes |
| Denise Fétrot | F | 27 January 1898 | 15 July 2008 | 110 years, 170 days | Picardie | Champagne-Ardenne | |
| 91 | Rosina Carli | F | 23 April 1901 | 8 October 2011 | 110 years, 168 days | Italy | Lorraine |
| 92 | Marthe Denis | F | 7 December 1888 | 20 May 1999 | 110 years, 164 days | ? | ? |
| 93 | Mélanie Dormois | F | 8 July 1887 | 13 December 1997 | 110 years, 158 days | ? | ? |
| 94 | Jeanne Portet-Rouch | F | 29 May 1897 | 27 October 2007 | 110 years, 151 days | Midi-Pyrénées | Midi-Pyrénées |
| 95 | Juliette Merceron | F | 23 April 1888 | 16 September 1998 | 110 years, 146 days | ? | ? |
| Louise Bontemps | F | 13 June 1897 | 6 November 2007 | 110 years, 146 days | Île-de-France | Picardie | |
| 97 | Marie Mougin | F | 25 June 1877 | 17 November 1987 | 110 years, 145 days | ? | ? |
| 98 | Elisa Esnault | F | 10 December 1870 | 25 April 1981 | 110 years, 136 days | ? | Bourgogne |
| 99 | Alexandrine Renaud | F | 8 September 1887 | 18 January 1998 | 110 years, 132 days | ? | ? |
| 100 | Jean Teillet | M | 6 November 1866 | 17 March 1977 | 110 years, 131 days | ? | Île-de-France |
| Ismène Baffard | F | 24 October 1898 | 4 March 2009 | 110 years, 131 days | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe | |
| 102 | Anna Boulet | F | 28 June 1889 | 19 October 1999 | 110 years, 113 days | ? | ? |
| 103 | Marthe Bellecour | F | 18 April 1883 | 4 August 1993 | 110 years, 108 days | ? | ? |
| 104 | Elisabeth Vuillemot | F | 23 September 1895 | 3 January 2006 | 110 years, 102 days | ? | ? |
| 105 | Louis de Cazenave Louis de Cazenave Louis de Cazenave was, at the time of his death, the oldest surviving French veteran of World War I.De Cazenave became the oldest poilu following the death of 111-year-old Maurice Floquet on November 10, 2006... |
M | 16 October 1897 | 20 January 2008 | 110 years, 96 days | Auvergne | Auvergne |
| Lazare Ponticelli Lazare Ponticelli Lazare Ponticelli , Knight of Vittorio Veneto, was at 110, the last surviving officially recognized veteran of the First World War from France and the last poilu of its trenches to die. Born in Italy, he travelled on his own to France at the age of eight... |
M | 7 December 1897 | 12 March 2008 | 110 years, 96 days | Italy | Île-de-France | |
| 107 | Elisa Cubells | F | 20 August 1885 | 16 November 1995 | 110 years, 88 days | Spain | Île-de-France |
| 108 | Annette Faron | F | 15 February 1869 | 12 May 1979 | 110 years, 86 days | ? | Auvergne |
| 109 | Marie Vigne-Ben Cimon | F | 23 September 1894 | 7 December 2004 | 110 years, 75 days | Rhône-Alpes | Rhône-Alpes |
| 110 | Joséphine Fouesnel | F | 9 October 1900 | 15 December 2010 | 110 years, 67 days | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | Nord-Pas-de-Calais |
| Marie Grosclaude | F | 15 October 1897 | 20 December 2007 | 110 years, 66 days | Franche-Comté | Bourgogne | |
| Joséphine Jeanne Faure-Geors | F | 30 January 1899 | 1 April 2009 | 110 years, 61 days | ? | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | |
| 111 | Marie-Madeleine Hellio | F | 7 November 1898 | 5 January 2009 | 110 years, 59 days | Rhône-Alpes | Rhône-Alpes |
| 112 | Marie-Louise Antelme | F | 28 December 1881 | 19 February 1992 | 110 years, 53 days | ? | ? |
| Véronique Louis-Sidney | F | 23 June 1900 | 13 August 2010 | 110 years, 51 days | Martinique | Martinique | |
| 113 | Marie-Louise Renier | F | 21 November 1898 | 5 January 2009 | 110 years, 45 days | Limousin | Centre |
| Anne-Marie Lissilour | F | 1 August 1900 | 14 September 2010 | 110 years, 44 days | Corse | Corse | |
| 114 | Marie-Thérèse Cau | F | 9 January 1884 | 21 February 1994 | 110 years, 43 days | ? | ? |
| 115 | Nouria Hutin | F | 12 July 1884 | 23 August 1994 | 110 years, 42 days | ? | ? |
| 116 | Fernande Revel | F | 2 September 1898 | 12 October 2008 | 110 years, 40 days | Basse-Normandie | Pays de la Loire |
| 117 | Marie Bouvier | F | 26 November 1883 | 30 December 1993 | 110 years, 34 days | ? | ? |
| 118 | Marthe Ardouin-Schmid | F | 12 July 1893 | 13 August 2003 | 110 years, 32 days | Île-de-France | Île-de-France |
| 119 | Sophie Dernoncourt | F | 9 May 1884 | 7 June 1994 | 110 years, 29 days | ? | ? |
| Jeanne Samson | F | 5 November 1890 | 4 December 2000 | 110 years, 29 days | ? | ? | |
| 121 | Adeline Soboul | F | 8 February 1890 | 6 March 2000 | 110 years, 27 days | ? | ? |
| 122 | Marie Fastayre | F | 17 May 1888 | 30 May 1998 | 110 years, 13 days | ? | ? |
| 123 | Jeanne Bonnard-Rochet | F | 29 November 1897 | 29 November 2007 | 110 years, 0 days | Rhône-Alpes | Rhône-Alpes |
a Primout was born in French Algeria
French Algeria
French Algeria lasted from 1830 to 1962, under a variety of governmental systems. From 1848 until independence, the whole Mediterranean region of Algeria was administered as an integral part of France, much like Corsica and Réunion are to this day. The vast arid interior of Algeria, like the rest...
. It is now Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
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b Narbonne was born in French Algeria
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French Algeria lasted from 1830 to 1962, under a variety of governmental systems. From 1848 until independence, the whole Mediterranean region of Algeria was administered as an integral part of France, much like Corsica and Réunion are to this day. The vast arid interior of Algeria, like the rest...
. It is now Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
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c Petit was born in Lorraine
Lorraine (région)
Lorraine is one of the 27 régions of France. The administrative region has two cities of equal importance, Metz and Nancy. Metz is considered to be the official capital since that is where the regional parliament is situated...
, which was then part of the German Empire
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. It is now in France
France
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d Trompeter was born in Alsace
Alsace
Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...
, which was then part of the German Empire
German Empire
The German Empire refers to Germany during the "Second Reich" period from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.The German...
. It is now in France
France
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e Fourcade was born in French Algeria
French Algeria
French Algeria lasted from 1830 to 1962, under a variety of governmental systems. From 1848 until independence, the whole Mediterranean region of Algeria was administered as an integral part of France, much like Corsica and Réunion are to this day. The vast arid interior of Algeria, like the rest...
. It is now Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
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f Aubertin was born in Lorraine
Lorraine (région)
Lorraine is one of the 27 régions of France. The administrative region has two cities of equal importance, Metz and Nancy. Metz is considered to be the official capital since that is where the regional parliament is situated...
, which was then mostly part of the German Empire
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The German Empire refers to Germany during the "Second Reich" period from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.The German...
, but the part where she was born was still a part of France
France
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(Relanges
Relanges
Relanges is a commune in the Vosges department in Lorraine in northeastern France....
).
g Hue was born in French Tunisia. It is now Tunisia
Tunisia
Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...
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h Dott was born in Alsace
Alsace
Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...
, which was then part of the German Empire
German Empire
The German Empire refers to Germany during the "Second Reich" period from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.The German...
. It is now in France
France
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French emigrant supercentenarians
| Rank | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age | Region of birth | Country of death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marie-Rose Mueller | F | 20 September 1896 | 5 November 2007 | 111 years, 46 days | Alsace | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
| 2 | Berta Zeisler | F | 2 February 1900 | 1 December 2010 | 110 years, 302 days | Lorraine | Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
| 3 | Johanna Meyer | F | 6 December 1896 | 12 January 2007 | 110 years, 37 days | Alsace | Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... |
i Mueller was born in the French part of Alsace
Alsace
Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...
, which is today the territory of Belfort
Belfort
Belfort is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Franche-Comté in northeastern France and is the prefecture of the department. It is located on the Savoureuse, on the strategically important natural route between the Rhine and the Rhône – the Belfort Gap or Burgundian Gate .-...
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j Zeisler was born in Lorraine
Lorraine (région)
Lorraine is one of the 27 régions of France. The administrative region has two cities of equal importance, Metz and Nancy. Metz is considered to be the official capital since that is where the regional parliament is situated...
, which was then part of the German Empire
German Empire
The German Empire refers to Germany during the "Second Reich" period from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.The German...
. It is now in France
France
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k Meyer was born in Alsace
Alsace
Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...
, which was then part of the German Empire
German Empire
The German Empire refers to Germany during the "Second Reich" period from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.The German...
. It is now in France
France
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Oldest French person by region
This is a list of the oldest verified people by birth from each region by today borders| Region | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alsace | |||||
| Aquitaine | Lucie Péré-Pucheu | F | 13 August 1893 | 6 April 2006 | 112 years, 236 days |
| Auvergne | Clémentine Solignac | F | 7 September 1894 | 25 May 2008 | 113 years, 261 days |
| Basse-Normandie | Germaine Haye | F | 10 October 1888 | 18 April 2002 | 113 years, 190 days |
| Bourgogne | |||||
| Bretagne | Marie-Thérèse Bardet | F | 2 June 1898 | Living | |
| Centre | Pauline Chabanny | F | 20 August 1881 | 13 August 1994 | 112 years, 358 days |
| Champagne-Ardenne | |||||
| Corse | |||||
| Franche-Comté | Eugénie Roux | F | 24 January 1874 | 20 June 1986 | 112 years, 147 days |
| Haute-Normandie | |||||
| Ile-de-France | Camille Loiseau | F | 13 February 1892 | 12 August 2006 | 114 years, 180 days |
| Languedoc-Roussillon | Anne Primout | F | 5 October 1890 | 26 March 2005 | 114 years, 172 days |
| Limousin | |||||
| Lorraine | Marguerite Petit | F | 3 July 1883 | 21 December 1995 | 112 years, 171 days |
| Midi-Pyrénées | |||||
| Nord-Pas-de-Calais | |||||
| Pays de la Loire | Marie Brémont Marie Brémont Marie Marthe Augustine Lemaitre Brémont was a French supercentenarian and the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death. This means she was the oldest living person at the turn of the century, and the new millenium, and therefore the person with the earliest... |
F | 25 April 1886 | 6 June 2001 | 115 years, 42 days |
| Picardie | |||||
| Poitou-Charentes | Marie Mornet | F | 4 April 1894 | 5 January 2007 | 112 years, 276 days |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Jeanne Calment Jeanne Calment Jeanne Louise Calment was a French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human life span in history, living to the age of . She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, and outlived both her daughter and grandson. She became especially well known from the age of 113, when the... |
F | 21 February 1875 | 4 August 1997 | 122 years, 164 days |
| Rhône-Alpes | Marie-Simone Capony Marie-Simone Capony Marie-Simone Capony was, at age 113, the oldest living person in France for more than a year and a retired teacher. She became the French doyenne following the death of 114-year-old Camille Loiseau in August 2006. At the time of her death, aged 113 years and 185 days, due to heart failure, she... |
F | 14 March 1894 | 15 September 2007 | 113 years, 185 days |
Overseas regions
This is a list of the oldest verified people by birth from each French overseas region| Region | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| French Guiana | Eudoxie Baboul | F | 30 September 1901 | Living | |
| Guadeloupe | Luce Maced | F | 2 May 1886 | 25 February 2000 | 113 years, 299 days |
| Martinique | Véronique Louis-Sidney | F | 23 June 1900 | 13 August 2010 | 110 years, 51 days |
| New Caledonia | Marie-Louise Lhuillier | F | 26 June 1895 | 28 December 2007 | 112 years, 185 days |
| Réunion | Julia Sinédia-Cazour Julia Sinédia-Cazour Marie-Julia Sinédia-Cazour was the oldest African supercentenarian, oldest person from the French possession of Réunion and is the tenth-oldest French person on record. She married in 1915. At the time of her death she was France's second-oldest person and the eleventh-oldest person in the world... |
F | 12 July 1892 | 6 October 2005 | 113 years, 86 days |
| Saint Barthélemy | Eugénie Blanchard Eugénie Blanchard Anne Eugénie Blanchard was a French supercentenarian, who at the age of was the oldest living person at the time of her death. She became the recognised titleholder upon the death of Japanese supercentenarian Kama Chinen on 2 May 2010... |
F | 16 February 1896 | 4 November 2010 | 114 years, 261 days |
Chronological list of the oldest living person in France since 1975
| From | To | Name | Sex | Age when oldest | Lived | Region of death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ? | 4 September 1975 | Marie-Ernestine Compain | F | ? – 109 | 23 October 1865 – 4 September 1975 109 years, 316 days |
? |
| 4 September 1975 | 25 April 1978 |
Marie-Virginie Duhem | F | 109 – 111 | 2 August 1866 – 25 April 1978 111 years, 266 days |
? |
| 25 April 1978 | 14 April 1979 ( days) |
Frédérique Noël | F | 109 – 110 | 19 June 1868 – 14 April 1979 110 years, 299 days |
? |
| 14 April 1979 | 8 March 1981 |
Augustine Tessier | F | 110 – 112 | 2 January 1869 – 8 March 1981 112 years, 65 days |
Languedoc-Roussillon |
| 8 March 1981 | 25 April 1981 ( days) |
Elisa Esnault | F | 110 | 10 December 1870 – 25 April 1981 110 years, 136 days |
Bourgogne |
| 25 April 1981 | 20 June 1986 |
Eugénie Roux | F | 107 – 112 | 24 January 1874 – 20 June 1986 112 years, 147 days |
Rhône-Alpes |
| 20 June 1986 | 4 August 1997 |
Jeanne Calment Jeanne Calment Jeanne Louise Calment was a French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human life span in history, living to the age of . She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, and outlived both her daughter and grandson. She became especially well known from the age of 113, when the... |
F | 111 – 122 | 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997 122 years, 164 days |
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| 4 August 1997 | 9 March 1998 ( days) |
Marie-Hélène Chanteperdrix | F | 111 – 112 | 5 March 1886 – 9 March 1998 112 years, 4 days |
Nord-Pas-de-Calais |
| 9 March 1998 | 3 January 1999 ( days) |
Jeanne Dumaine | F | 111 – 112 | 19 March 1886 – 3 January 1999 112 years, 290 days |
Île-de-France |
| 3 January 1999 | 6 June 2001 |
Marie Brémont Marie Brémont Marie Marthe Augustine Lemaitre Brémont was a French supercentenarian and the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death. This means she was the oldest living person at the turn of the century, and the new millenium, and therefore the person with the earliest... |
F | 112 – 115 | 25 April 1886 – 6 June 2001 115 years, 42 days |
Pays de la Loire |
| 6 June 2001 | 18 April 2002 ( days) |
Germaine Haye Germaine Haye Germaine Haye née Germain was a supercentenarian and France's oldest living person for about a year, following the death of 115-year-old Marie Brémont on June 6, 2001 until her own death at age 113 years 190 days... |
F | 112 – 113 | 10 October 1888 – 18 April 2002 113 years, 190 days |
Basse-Normandie |
| 18 April 2002 | 26 March 2005 |
Anne Primout | F | 111 – 114 | 5 October 1890 – 26 March 2005 114 years, 172 days |
Languedoc-Roussillon |
| 26 March 2005 | 12 August 2006 |
Camille Loiseau | F | 113 – 114 | 13 February 1892 – 12 August 2006 114 years, 180 days |
Île-de-France |
| 12 August 2006 | 15 September 2007 |
Marie-Simone Capony Marie-Simone Capony Marie-Simone Capony was, at age 113, the oldest living person in France for more than a year and a retired teacher. She became the French doyenne following the death of 114-year-old Camille Loiseau in August 2006. At the time of her death, aged 113 years and 185 days, due to heart failure, she... |
F | 112 – 113 | 14 March 1894 – 15 September 2007 113 years, 185 days |
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| 15 September 2007 | 25 May 2008 ( days) |
Clémentine Solignac | F | 113 | 7 September 1894 – 25 May 2008 113 years, 261 days |
Auvergne |
| 25 May 2008 | 4 November 2010 |
Eugénie Blanchard Eugénie Blanchard Anne Eugénie Blanchard was a French supercentenarian, who at the age of was the oldest living person at the time of her death. She became the recognised titleholder upon the death of Japanese supercentenarian Kama Chinen on 2 May 2010... |
F | 112 – 114 | 16 February 1896 – 4 November 2010 114 years, 261 days |
Saint Barthélemy |
| 4 November 2010 | 23 July 2011 ( days) |
Mathilde Aussant Mathilde Aussant Mathilde Aussant was a French supercentenarian who was at the time of her death the oldest verified person in France.-Biography:... |
F | 112 – 113 | 27 February 1898 – 23 July 2011 113 years, 146 days |
Centre |
| 23 July 2011 | Present ( days) |
Marcelle Narbonne Marcelle Narbonne Marcelle Narbonne is the oldest living person in France and in Europe. She is also the 9th-oldest person in the world. She and Marie-Thérèse Bardet are the last 2 verified living French people born before 1900.-Biography:... |
F | 113* | born 25 March 1898 age |
Living in Languedoc-Roussillon |
Lucie Péré-Pucheu
Lucie Léonie "Anne" Péré-Pucheu (13 August 1893 – 6 April 2006, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques), was the vice-doyenne of France and, by a quirk of fate, also ranked as the second-oldest person in Western EuropeWestern Europe
Western Europe is a loose term for the collection of countries in the western most region of the European continents, though this definition is context-dependent and carries cultural and political connotations. One definition describes Western Europe as a geographic entity—the region lying in the...
when she died at 112 years 236 days old. Péré-Pucheu was more than two years older than Germany's oldest person and well ahead of the UK's oldest person, born in 1895. She was a month older than the oldest persons in Portugal and Italy, and more than a year ahead of Spain's oldest-known person. Only fellow Frenchwoman and Parisian, Camille Loiseau, 114, ranked higher among verified living European supercentenarian
Supercentenarian
A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....
s. Anne lived in southwest France.
Camille Loiseau
Camille Blanche Loiseau Chadal (13 February 1892 – 12 August 2006) was the oldest living person in France for more than a year, until her death at age 114. Loiseau was ranked fifth in the world in the 2007 edition of Guinness World RecordsGuinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...
. She achieved the position of France's oldest woman, known in France as the Doyenne de France, on the death of Anne Primout on 26 March 2005, who also died at age 114.
She was the oldest verified person living in Europe since the 28 December 2005 death of again 114-year-old Italian Virginia Dighero, and became the fifth oldest verified living person in the world on the death of 115-year-old American Susie Gibson
Susie Gibson
Susie Elizabeth Gibson née Potts was an American supercentenarian and the third-oldest person in the world at the time of her death. She currently ranks as one of the 25 oldest validated persons of all time. Moreover, Susie was older than several 'world's oldest persons'...
on 16 February 2006. Madame Loiseau was succeeded as doyenne of France by Marie-Simone Capony
Marie-Simone Capony
Marie-Simone Capony was, at age 113, the oldest living person in France for more than a year and a retired teacher. She became the French doyenne following the death of 114-year-old Camille Loiseau in August 2006. At the time of her death, aged 113 years and 185 days, due to heart failure, she...
, aged 112 at the time, though the title was first given to fellow 112-year-old Marie Mornet Robin who lived in the western town of Poitou-Charentes
Poitou-Charentes
Poitou-Charentes is an administrative region in central western France comprising four departments: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne. The regional capital is Poitiers.-Politics:The regional council is composed of 56 members...
, but was three weeks younger than Capony.
The French longevity recordholder
National longevity recordholders
This is a list of oldest people by nation. It includes the individual, for each given country, who are reported to have had the longest lifespan. Such records can only be determined to the extent that the given country's records are reliable. Comprehensive birth registration largely came into being...
, also the oldest verified person in history
Oldest people
This is a list of tables of the verified oldest people in the world in ordinal rank, such as oldest person or oldest man. In these tables, a supercentenarian is considered 'verified' if his or her claim has been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such...
, is Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Louise Calment was a French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human life span in history, living to the age of . She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, and outlived both her daughter and grandson. She became especially well known from the age of 113, when the...
, who died in 1997 at the age of 122.
Following the 28 January 2007 death of 114-year-old American Emma Tillman
Emma Tillman
Emmaline "Emma" Fanchon Tillman, was an American supercentenarian and, at age 114 years 67 days, the oldest validated living person from January 24, 2007 until her own death four days later. She was the last remaining documented person born in 1892....
, Camille Loiseau was confirmed as the oldest verified person from the year 1892 (in other words, although born in the same year, the ten+ months between their births was longer than the five months between their deaths, and thus Tillman never outaged Loiseau).
She was born in Paris and never moved out of the city until her hospitalization in 1998 due to a fall. She was the youngest of nine children, four boys and five girls. On 13 August 1910 she married René Frédéric Chadal, although their marriage lasted only 15 days. As is common in France, Camille Loiseau chose not to use her husband's last name.
She had celebrated her last birthday "with a little champagne", and was known right to the end of her life for her humour and flirtatiousness. She died in the Hôpital Paul-Brousse
Hôpital Paul-Brousse
Hôpital Paul-Brousse is a hospital in Villejuif, South Paris, France. It is named after Paul Brousse, a French socialist.Marc Zelter MD and Daniel Vittecoq MD are the professors in this hospital....
in Villejuif
Villejuif
Villejuif is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.-Name:The name Villejuif was recorded for the first time in a papal bull of 1119 as Villa Judea, the meaning of which is still debated...
.
Marie Mornet Robin
Marie Elise Mornet Robin (4 April 1894 – 5 January 2007) was a French supercentenarianSupercentenarian
A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....
and the second-oldest person in France
Oldest people
This is a list of tables of the verified oldest people in the world in ordinal rank, such as oldest person or oldest man. In these tables, a supercentenarian is considered 'verified' if his or her claim has been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such...
, very close behind Marie-Simone Capony
Marie-Simone Capony
Marie-Simone Capony was, at age 113, the oldest living person in France for more than a year and a retired teacher. She became the French doyenne following the death of 114-year-old Camille Loiseau in August 2006. At the time of her death, aged 113 years and 185 days, due to heart failure, she...
, when she died at age 112 years 276 days. She was born in Lessart and died in L'Isle Jourdain. At the time of her passing she also ranked third-oldest in Western Europe
Western Europe
Western Europe is a loose term for the collection of countries in the western most region of the European continents, though this definition is context-dependent and carries cultural and political connotations. One definition describes Western Europe as a geographic entity—the region lying in the...
and 13th-oldest in the world.
Mathilde Octavie Tafna
Mathilde Octavie Tafna Albina (16 March 1895 – 1 May 2007) was the oldest living person of a French possessionOverseas departments and territories of France
The French Overseas Departments and Territories consist broadly of French-administered territories outside of the European continent. These territories have varying legal status and different levels of autonomy, although all have representation in the Parliament of France , and consequently the...
since the death of 113-year-old Julia Sinédia-Cazour
Julia Sinédia-Cazour
Marie-Julia Sinédia-Cazour was the oldest African supercentenarian, oldest person from the French possession of Réunion and is the tenth-oldest French person on record. She married in 1915. At the time of her death she was France's second-oldest person and the eleventh-oldest person in the world...
on 6 October 2005, until her own death at age 112. Living in Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe is an archipelago located in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres and a population of 400,000. It is the first overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe...
, she was the third-oldest French person and the 19th oldest person in the world. According to the Gerontology Research Group
Gerontology Research Group
The Gerontology Research Group was started in 1990, and is a global eGroup of researchers in gerontology, some of who also meet monthly at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. The primary function of the group is to further gerontology research, with the objective of reversing or retarding aging...
, she was succeeded by Marie-Louise Lhuillier of New Caledonia
New Caledonia
New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
.
Aimé Avignon
Aimé Avignon (2 February 1897 – 23 August 2007) was the oldest living manOldest people
This is a list of tables of the verified oldest people in the world in ordinal rank, such as oldest person or oldest man. In these tables, a supercentenarian is considered 'verified' if his or her claim has been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such...
in France, at 110 years of age, from the death of 111-year-old Maurice Floquet
Maurice Floquet
Maurice Noël Floquet was, at age 111, France's oldest man on record and was one of the last surviving French veterans of World War I. He was, at the age of 111 years and 320 days, France's longest-lived soldier ever. Moreover, Maurice was France's oldest living man for more than four years...
on 10 November 2006 until his own death over nine months later. He also became the seventh French man to become a supercentenarian
Supercentenarian
A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....
. He was the eighth-oldest man in the world, and the third-oldest in Europe. He never fought in the First World War
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
, however, so he was not a poilu
Poilu
Poilu is a warmly informal term for a French World War I infantryman, meaning, literally, hairy one. The term came into popular usage in France during the era of Napoleon Bonaparte and his massive citizen armies, though the term grognard was also common. It is still widely used as a term of...
. Louis de Cazenave
Louis de Cazenave
Louis de Cazenave was, at the time of his death, the oldest surviving French veteran of World War I.De Cazenave became the oldest poilu following the death of 111-year-old Maurice Floquet on November 10, 2006...
was the oldest living French World War I veteran
Veteran
A veteran is a person who has had long service or experience in a particular occupation or field; " A veteran of ..."...
and, at 109, took over as oldest living Frenchman until his own death on 20 January 2008.
Marie-Louise Lhuillier
Marie-Louise Cathérine Lhuillier (also spelled L'Huillier) (26 June 1895 – 28 December 2007) was a French supercentenarianSupercentenarian
A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....
, the second-oldest person
Oldest people
This is a list of tables of the verified oldest people in the world in ordinal rank, such as oldest person or oldest man. In these tables, a supercentenarian is considered 'verified' if his or her claim has been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such...
in France and 14th-oldest in the world, at age 112 years 185 days when she died, in addition to being the oldest ever person to have lived in New Caledonia
New Caledonia
New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
. She became the oldest person in the Southern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
The Southern Hemisphere is the part of Earth that lies south of the equator. The word hemisphere literally means 'half ball' or "half sphere"...
after the death of Australian Myra Nicholson
Myra Nicholson
Myra Leviston "Nicky" Nicholson was the thrid oldest living Australian and the eleventh-oldest validated person in the world following the death of French doyenne Marie-Simone Capony on 15 September 2007.-Biography:...
on 20 September 2007.
Born in Nouméa
Nouméa
Nouméa is the capital city of the French territory of New Caledonia. It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main island, Grande Terre, and is home to the majority of the island's European, Polynesian , Indonesian, and Vietnamese populations, as well as many Melanesians,...
when it only had 6,000 inhabitants (it has over 100,000 now), she taught at the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
and also worked at a bank. She outlived the average life expectancy of women in 1900 by over 60 years, but she was still approximately ten years behind Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Louise Calment was a French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human life span in history, living to the age of . She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, and outlived both her daughter and grandson. She became especially well known from the age of 113, when the...
, the oldest person ever and also from France. It should be noted, moreover, that Lhuillier descended from French colonists (not the native population) and that New Caledonia is considered to be 'part of France' by the French government.
Marie-Clémentine Solignac
Marie-Clémentine Judith Solignac née Veyrac (7 September 1894 – 25 May 2008) was a French supercentenarianSupercentenarian
A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....
and the doyenne of France, the second-oldest person in Europe and the fourth-oldest in the world
Oldest people
This is a list of tables of the verified oldest people in the world in ordinal rank, such as oldest person or oldest man. In these tables, a supercentenarian is considered 'verified' if his or her claim has been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such...
from the 22 March 2008 death of Arbella Ewing
Arbella Ewing
Arbella Ewing née Perkins was an American supercentenarian. At the time of her death, at age 114, she was the third-oldest living person in the world, the second-oldest person in the United States and the oldest living African American...
from the United States, until Solignac's death two months later. She was born in Vorey
Vorey
Vorey is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.Clémentine Solignac, the current Doyenne de France since the death of Marie-Simone Capony, lives in a retirement center in Vorey.-Demography:...
and was living in a retirement home there at the time of her death, aged 113 years 261 days. Her daughter, who had lived in the same nursing home as she had, died on 20 September 2007 at the age of 91.