Jean Claude Jacob

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Jean Claude Jacob was a serf from the Jura Mountains, supposedly 120 years old, who was brought from his native place to figure as "dean of the human race" in Paris at the great federation festival of June 1790.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.