List of French supercentenarians
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This is an incomplete list of French supercentenarians (people who have attained the age of at least 110 years 0 days), ordered by date of birth.
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[edit] Jean Teillet
Jean Teillet (November 6, 1866 – March 17, 1977) was a French supercentenarian from Issy-les-Moulineaux. When he died at 110 years and 131 days, he was the oldest man in France[1], and may have been the oldest man in the world (as the case of Japanese man Shigechiyo Izumi remains doubtful).
[edit] Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Louise Calment (IPA: [ʒan lwiz kal'mɑ̃]; February 21, 1875 – August 4, 1997) reached the longest confirmed lifespan in history at 122 years and 164 days (44,724 days in total).
[edit] Henri Pérignon
Henri Pérignon (Cabourg, France, October 14, 1879 – June 18, 1990) became the oldest man in the world after the death of John Evans. He held this title for only eight days.
| Preceded by John Evans |
Oldest Recognized Living Man 10 June 1990 – 18 June 1990 |
Succeeded by James W. Wiggins |
[edit] Marie Brémont
Marie Marthe Augustine Mesange Lemaitre Brémont (April 25, 1886 – June 6, 2001) was a French supercentenarian, the the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 to June 2001 and the second French woman to hold the title, after Jeanne Calment.
[edit] Germaine Haye
Germaine Germain Haye (October 10, 1888 – April 18, 2002) was a supercentenarian and France's oldest living person[2] for about a year, following the passing of 115-year-old Marie Brémont on June 6, 2001 until her own death at age 113 years 190 days, when she ranked as one of the 100 oldest persons of all time, and she remained on this list until mid-March 2008.
[edit] Anne Primout
Anne Primout (October 5, 1890 – March 26, 2005) was the oldest person from the then French possession of Algeria and the fifth-oldest French person on record.
[edit] Camille Loiseau
Camille Loiseau (February 13, 1892 – August 12, 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 Records. 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-Zolezzi, 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 her.[3]
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 January 28, 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, fours boys and five girls. On August 13, 1910 she married René Frédéric Chadal, although their marriage lasted only 15 days.[4] 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.[citation needed]
[edit] Julia Sinédia-Cazour
Marie-Julia Sinédia-Cazour (July 12, 1892 – October 6, 2005) was the oldest person from the French possession of Réunion and the eighth-oldest French person on record.
[edit] Lucie Péré-Pucheu
'Anne' Lucie Léonie Péré-Pucheu (August 13, 1893 – April 6, 2006), was the vice-doyenne of France and, by a quirk of fate, also ranked as the second-oldest person in Western Europe when she died at 112 years and 236 days old. Anne 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 supercentenarians. Anne lived in southwest France.[5][6]
[edit] Marie Mornet Robin
Marie Elise Mornet Robin (Lessart, April 4, 1894 – L'Isle Jourdain, January 5, 2007) was a French supercentenarian and the second-oldest person in France, very close behind Marie-Simone Capony, when she died at age 112 years and 276 days. At the time of her passing she also ranked third-oldest in Western Europe and 13th-oldest in the world.[7]
[edit] Marie-Clémentine Solignac
Marie-Clémentine Judith Veyrac Solignac (September 7, 1894 – May 25, 2008) was a French supercentenarian and the doyenne of France, the second-oldest person in Europe and the fourth-oldest in the world from the March 22, 2008 death of Arbella Ewing from the United States. She was born in Vorey and was living in a retirement home there at the time of her death, aged 113 years and 261 days. Her daughter, who had lived in the same nursing home as she had, died on September 20, 2007 at the age of 91. Solignac is one of the 90 longest lived people ever.
[edit] Maurice Floquet
Maurice Noël Floquet (December 25, 1894 – November 10, 2006) was France's oldest man on record and was one of the last surviving French veterans of World War I. He was born in Poissons and died in Montauroux.
[edit] Mathilde Octavie Tafna
Mathilde Octavie Tafna Albina (March 16, 1895 – May 1, 2007) was the oldest living person of a French possession since the death of 113-year-old Julia Sinédia-Cazour on October 6, 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.[8]
[edit] Marie-Louise Lhuillier
Marie-Louise Cathérine Lhuillier (also spelled L'Huillier) (June 26, 1895 – December 28, 2007[9]) was a French supercentenarian, the second-oldest person in France and 14th-oldest in the world, at age 112 years and 185 days when she died, in addition to being the oldest ever person to have lived in New Caledonia. 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.[citation needed] She outlived the average life expectancy of women in 1900 by over 60 years, but was still 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.[citation needed]
[edit] Aimé Avignon
Aimé Avignon (February 2, 1897 – August 23, 2007) was the oldest living man in France, at 110 years of age, from the death of 111-year-old Maurice Floquet on November 10, 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 January 20, 2008.[10]
[edit] Louis de Cazenave
Louis de Cazenave (October 16, 1897 – January 20, 2008)[11] was, at the time of his death, the oldest France poilu still alive, following the November 10, 2006 death of the nearly 112-year-old Maurice Floquet. De Cazenave was also the oldest living Frenchman, as of August 23, 2007. As of December 11, 2007, he was the fourth-oldest man in Europe and the eleventh-oldest man in the world as well, until his own death just 40 days later.
[edit] Lazare Ponticelli
Lazare Ponticelli (December 7, 1897 – March 12, 2008) was, at the time of his death, the last surviving official French veteran of the First World War and the last poilu of its trenches. At the time of his death, he was both the oldest living man born in Italy and the oldest man living in France. Ponticelli is also notable for his work in the piping and metal industry after World War I.
[edit] References
- ^ The Oldest Human Beings
- ^ "113-jährige Französin in Seniorenheim verstorben" (""113 year old Frenchwoman dies in retirement home"), ShortNews.de, 2002-04-19. Retrieved 2007-11-11.(German)
- ^ Camille Loiseau, oldest person in France, dies aged 114
- ^ Pictures of Camille Loiseau (French)
- ^ Journal de Sauveterre de Béarn (French)
- ^ http://www.genarians.com/Archives2006.html
- ^ website of Marie Mornet Robin' nephew
- ^ Current oldest verified people and recent deaths
- ^ http://www.caledosphere.com/?p=2887
- ^ http://www.midilibre.com/actuv2/article.php?num=1187979182
- ^ "France's oldest WW1 veteran dies", BBC News, 2008-01-20. Retrieved on 2008-01-20.
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