List of French supercentenarians

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.

People

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).

Jeanne Calment

Jeanne Louise Calment (IPA: [ʒan lwiːz 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).

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.

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.

She was born in Noëllet, and her first husband, railroad worker Constant Lemaitre, was killed in the First World War. She married again to a taxi driver, Florentin Brémont, who died in 1967. Over the course of her life, she worked in a pharmaceutical factory, as a nanny and as a seamstress. At 103, she was hit by a car and broke her arm. She died at her retirement home at age 115 and 42 days in Candé, Maine-et-Loire. She had no children. She was the last documented surviving person born in 1886.^[2]

Germaine Haye

Germaine Germain Haye (October 10, 1888 – April 18, 2002) was a supercentenarian and France's oldest living person^[3] 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.

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.^[4]

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.^[5] 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]}

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.^[6]^[7]

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.^[8]

Marie-Clémentine Solignac

Marie-Clémentine Judith Veyrac Solignac (born September 7, 1894) is a French supercentenarian who is the doyenne of France, the second-oldest person in Europe and the sixth-oldest in the world as of November 14, 2007. She was born in Vorey and is currently 113 years old and living in a retirement home there. Her 91-year-old daughter, who lived at the same nursing home, died September 20, 2007.

Maurice Floquet

Maurice Noël Floquet (Poissons, December 25, 1894 - Montauroux, November 10, 2006) was France's oldest man on record and was one of the last surviving French veterans of World War I.

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.^[9]

Marie-Louise Lhuillier

Marie-Louise Cathérine Lhuillier (also spelled L'Huillier) (born June 26, 1895) is a French supercentenarian who is currently, at age 112, the second-oldest person in France and 15th-oldest in the world, in addition to being the oldest ever 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 has outlived the average life expectancy of women in 1900 by over 60 years, but is still some ten years behind Jeanne Calment, the oldest person ever and also from France. It should be noted, moreover, that Lhuillier is 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]}

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 is the oldest living French World War I veteran and, at 109, took over as oldest living Frenchman,^[10] de Cazenave now himself 110.

Lazarre Ponticelli

Lazarre Ponticelli (born December 7, 1897) is, at age 110, one of the last surviving French veterans of the First World War and is currently the oldest living man born in Italy, the second-oldest man living in France, and the 12th oldest in the world.

Ponticelli was born "Làzzaro" in Alseno, Piacenza, Italy. In 1907, when he was nine years old, he moved to France, and more than six years later, in 1914, he joined the French Foreign Legion at age 16. Lazarre saw action against Germany, and was wounded shortly after his entering of service in 1914. Ponticelli was discharged from the French Foreign Legion, and later joined the Italian Army in 1915. Lazarre was wounded again versus the Austrians in Tyrol. Hit in the head by artillery, he miraculously survived.

During the 1930s, he founded a piping and metal work company with his brothers called "Ponticelli Frères" (= "Ponticelli Brothers"), which became wealthy and still exists today and is well-known in his field.

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