List of French supercentenarians

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Marie Brémont (1886–2001) was the second oldest Frenchwoman ever. Pictured in 1910, aged 23–24.

French supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from France who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 161 French supercentenarians.[1] The oldest French person currently alive is Lucile Randon, born 11 February 1904, aged 114 years, 364 days.[2] France was also home to the oldest human being ever whose longevity was well documented, Jeanne Calment, who lived in Arles and remembered meeting Vincent Van Gogh when she was a teenager.[3] She was born on 21 February 1875, and died on 4 August 1997, aged 122 years and 164 days. Nevertheless, a November 2018 study advanced the hypothesis that Calment's daughter Yvonne usurped her identity in 1934; Yvonne was born on 19 January 1898, which would have made her 99 years old upon her death in 1997.[4] The verified oldest French man ever was Maurice Floquet, a veteran of World War I who lived 111 years and 320 days across three centuries (1894–2006).[5]

100 oldest French people ever[edit]

  Deceased   Living
Unranked entries have not yet been validated by the GRG.
^ denotes age at death, or, if living, age as of 10 February 2019

Rank Name Sex Birth date Death date Age[†] Département, region or country of birth Département, region or country of death or residence
01 Jeanne Calment[6][7] F 21 February 1875[a] 4 August 1997 122 years, 164 days[a] Bouches-du-Rhône[7] Bouches-du-Rhône[7]
02 Marie Brémont[8][9] F 25 April 1886 6 June 2001 115 years, 42 days Maine-et-Loire[8] Loire-Atlantique[9]
03 Lucile Randon[2] F 11 February 1904 Living 114 years, 364 days Gard[10] Bouches-du-Rhône[10]
04 Eudoxie Baboul[2][11] F 1 October 1901 1 July 2016 114 years, 274 days French Guiana[11] French Guiana[11]
05 Eugénie Blanchard[12][13] F 16 February 1896 4 November 2010 114 years, 261 days Saint Barthélemy[13] Saint Barthélemy[13]
06 Lydie Vellard[6] F 18 March 1875 17 September 1989 114 years, 183 days Centre Centre
07 Gabrielle Valentine des Robert[2][14] F 4 June 1904 3 December 2018 114 years, 182 days Ardennes[15] Loire-Atlantique[14][15]
08 Camille Loiseau[16][17] F 13 February 1892 12 August 2006 114 years, 180 days Paris[17] Val-de-Marne[17]
09 Anne Primout[18] (née Dupont)[19] F 5 October 1890 26 March 2005 114 years, 172 days French Algeria Pyrénées-Orientales[19]
10 Honorine Rondello[2] (née Cadoret)[20] F 28 July 1903 19 October 2017 114 years, 83 days Côtes-du-Nord[20] Var[20]
11 Jeanne Bot[2] F 14 January 1905 Living 114 years, 27 days Pyrénées-Orientales[10] Pyrénées-Orientales[10]
Marie Liguinen [fr] (née Brudieux)[21] F 26 March 1901 2 April 2015 114 years, 7 days Corrèze[21] Essonne[21]
12 Marie-Thérèse Bardet[22] (née Jégat)[23] F 2 June 1898 8 June 2012 114 years, 6 days Morbihan[23] Loire-Atlantique[23]
13 Olympe Amaury[2] F 19 June 1901 12 May 2015 113 years, 327 days Nièvre[21] Loiret[21]
14 Luce Maced[6] F 2 May 1886 25 February 2000 113 years, 299 days Guadeloupe Martinique
15 Marcelle Narbonne[22] F 25 March 1898 1 January 2012 113 years, 282 days French Algeria[24] Pyrénées-Orientales[24]
16 Clémentine Solignac[25][26] F 7 September 1894 25 May 2008 113 years, 261 days Haute-Loire[26] Haute-Loire[26]
17 Huguette Masson[2] F 27 June 1904 5 March 2018 113 years, 251 days Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire
18 Marie-Isabelle Diaz[27] (née Rodriguès)[28] F 22 February 1898 29 October 2011 113 years, 249 days French Algeria[24][28] Réunion[28]
19 Germaine Haye[6] F 10 October 1888 18 April 2002 113 years, 190 days Orne[29] Orne
20 Marie-Simone Capony[30][31] F 14 March 1894 15 September 2007 113 years, 185 days Loire[31] Alpes-Maritimes[31]
21 Mathilde Aussant[27] (née Gaudet)[32] F 27 February 1898 23 July 2011 113 years, 146 days Loire-Atlantique[32] Loir-et-Cher[24]
22 Julia Sinédia (née Cazour)[18][33] F 12 July 1892 6 October 2005 113 years, 86 days Réunion[33] Réunion[33]
23 Élisabeth Collot[2](née Benoist)[11] F 21 June 1903 4 September 2016 113 years, 75 days Champagne-Ardenne Isère[11]
24 Mathilde Lartigue[2][10] F 24 March 1905 24 March 2018 113 years, 0 days Hérault[10] Hérault[10]
25 Pauline Chabanny[6] F 20 August 1881 13 August 1994 112 years, 358 days Centre Auvergne
26 Thérèse Ladigue[2] F 15 February 1903 5 February 2016 112 years, 355 days Rhône-Alpes Rhône-Alpes
27 Julie Montabord[2] F 17 April 1906 Living 112 years, 299 days Martinique Martinique
28 Jeanne Dumaine[6][34] F 19 March 1886 3 January 1999 112 years, 290 days Paris[34] Essonne[34]
29 Marie Mornet[30] F 4 April 1894 5 January 2007 112 years, 276 days Poitou-Charentes Poitou-Charentes
30 Henriette Bœuf[2] F 4 November 1903 23 July 2016 112 years, 262 days Champagne-Ardenne Champagne-Ardenne
31 Joséphine Choquet[6] F 6 June 1878 14 February 1991 112 years, 253 days Brittany Picardy
32 Lucie Péré-Pucheu[16] F 13 August 1893 6 April 2006 112 years, 236 days Aquitaine Aquitaine
33 Mélanie Leblais[2] F 4 September 1903 3 April 2016 112 years, 212 days Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire
Marie-Louise Taterode[35][36] F 17 July 1906 Living 112 years, 208 days Corrèze[35] Puy-de-Dôme[35]
34 Irénise Moulonguet[1][37] F 6 November 1900 28 May 2013 112 years, 203 days Martinique[37] Martinique[37]
35 Ilse Weiszfeld[2] F 16 October 1904 22 April 2017 112 years, 188 days Austria Île-de-France
36 Marie-Louise L'Huillier[30] F 26 June 1895 28 December 2007 112 years, 185 days New Caledonia New Caledonia
37 Marguerite Petit[6] F 3 July 1883 21 December 1995 112 years, 171 days Lorraine[b] Lorraine
38 Eugénie Roux[6] F 24 January 1874 20 June 1986 112 years, 147 days Franche-Comté Rhône-Alpes
39 Yvonne Bory[6] F 14 March 1891 7 August 2003 112 years, 146 days Aquitaine Centre
40 Jeanne Colas[6] F 9 June 1886 15 October 1998 112 years, 128 days ? ?
41 Suzanne Burrier[1] F 14 March 1901 14 July 2013 112 years, 122 days Allier[38] Allier[37]
Marie Antoinette Radix[2] F 7 December 1904 8 April 2017 112 years, 122 days Rhône-Alpes Rhône-Alpes
43 Agnès Fagoo[30] F 19 December 1894 12 April 2007 112 years, 114 days Nord-Pas-de-Calais Nord-Pas-de-Calais
44 Constance Cariou[30] F 8 May 1895 29 August 2007 112 years, 113 days Pays de la Loire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Valentine Ligny[39] F 22 October 1906 Living 112 years, 111 days Somme[39] Pas-de-Calais[39]
45 Mathilde Dupray[2] F 31 October 1903 18 February 2016 112 years, 110 days Upper Normandy Brittany
46 Célestine Colombeau[6] F 17 February 1884 9 May 1996 112 years, 82 days ? ?
47 Marie-Louise Jeancard[6] F 5 September 1876 25 November 1988 112 years, 81 days ? ?
48 Augustine Teissier[6] F 2 January 1869 8 March 1981 112 years, 65 days ? Languedoc-Roussillon
49 Paule Bronzini[22][40] F 7 July 1900 29 August 2012 112 years, 53 days Bouches-du-Rhône[40] Vaucluse[40]
50 Mathilde Octavie Tafna[30] F 16 March 1895 1 May 2007 112 years, 46 days Guadeloupe Guadeloupe
51 Eugénie Dauzat[1] F 6 December 1900 12 January 2013 112 years, 37 days Auvergne Puy-de-Dôme[40]
52 Olympe Pidancet[41] F 24 January 1897 19 February 2009 112 years, 26 days Burgundy Rhône-Alpes
53 Fanny Bruel[18] F 18 March 1893 29 March 2005 112 years, 11 days ? Île-de-France
54 Blanche Marie Grosdidier[6] F 3 October 1889 10 October 2001 112 years, 7 days ? Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Isabelle Boizeau (née Billaud)[42] F 18 November 1905[43] 25 November 2017[42] 112 years, 7 days Yonne[43] Loiret[42]
55 Marie-Hélène Chanteperdrix[6] (née Paccou) F 5 March 1886 9 March 1998 112 years, 4 days ? Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Elisabeth Frenoy[44] F 7 February 1907 Living 112 years, 3 days ? Marne
56 Louise Fleury (née Mallet)[6] F 8 March 1888 9 March 2000 112 years, 1 day ? ?
57 Clothilde Roy[6] F 23 October 1889 13 October 2001 111 years, 355 days ? ?
58 Madeleine Mièze[1] F 28 April 1901 14 April 2013 111 years, 351 days Nord-Pas-de-Calais Nord-Pas-de-Calais
59 Marie Combéléran[6] F 8 June 1889 23 May 2001 111 years, 349 days ? ?
Marguerite Bailly[45] F 6 March 1907 Living 111 years, 341 days Aisne Vosges
60 Jeanne Bournat[1] F 22 January 1903 20 December 2014 111 years, 332 days Auvergne Auvergne
61 Jeannette Gayraud[6] F 12 May 1892 31 March 2004 111 years, 324 days ? Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
62 Zoé Vérot[6] F 15 February 1884 4 January 1996 111 years, 323 days ? ?
63 Germaine Stadler[18] F 29 March 1893 14 February 2005 111 years, 322 days Nord-Pas-de-Calais ?
64 Maurice Floquet[16] M 25 December 1894 10 November 2006 111 years, 320 days Champagne-Ardenne Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
65 Maria Richard[22] F 28 November 1900 11 October 2012 111 years, 318 days Belgium Languedoc-Roussillon
66 Marguerite Conrad[1] F 15 March 1902 26 January 2014 111 years, 317 days Île-de-France Île-de-France
67 Félicité Jandia[6] F 12 February 1881 7 December 1992 111 years, 299 days Guadeloupe Guadeloupe
68 Mathilde Gauchou[6] F 19 March 1879 30 December 1990 111 years, 286 days ? ?
69 Pauline Sevaille[6] F 20 November 1890 29 August 2002 111 years, 282 days ? ?
70 Marie-Virginie Duhem[6] F 2 August 1866 25 April 1978 111 years, 266 days Nord-Pas-de-Calais Nord-Pas-de-Calais
71 Georgette Léveillé[2] F 28 June 1903 14 March 2015 111 years, 259 days Île-de-France Île-de-France
72 Marie-Louise Bernède[18] F 6 April 1894 11 December 2005 111 years, 249 days ? ?
73 Marie-Louise Lambert[6] F 9 April 1888 11 December 1999 111 years, 246 days ? ?
74 Madeleine Bréhamel[2] F 31 August 1903 3 May 2015 111 years, 245 days Île-de-France Île-de-France
75 Juliette Trimaille[2] F 21 August 1903 17 April 2015 111 years, 239 days Franche-Comté Franche-Comté
Marie Jousseaume[46] (née Lamothe) F 17 June 1907 Living 111 years, 238 days Vendée Vendée
76 Catherine Trompeter[16] (née Weiss) F 26 March 1895 18 November 2006 111 years, 237 days Alsace[b] Alsace
Irène Lepetit[47][48] F 26 June 1907 Living 111 years, 229 days Landes[48] Hautes-Pyrénées[48]
77 Olive Deschamps[22] F 22 February 1901 18 September 2012 111 years, 209 days Centre Centre
78 Léa Revault[2] F 7 August 1903 1 March 2015 111 years, 206 days Centre Centre
79 Henriette Mégévand[6] F 24 June 1887 7 January 1999 111 years, 197 days ? ?
Marie-Louise Berthelot[49] F 29 July 1907 Living 111 years, 196 days Maine-et-Loire[49] Mayenne[49]
80 Catherine Soiron[27] F 31 July 1899 31 January 2011 111 years, 184 days ? Picardy
81 Maria Bigue[6] F 10 September 1886 12 March 1998 111 years, 183 days ? ?
82 Eugenie Peyrieux[2] F 1 December 1903 4 May 2015 111 years, 154 days ? ?
83 Émile Fourcade[6] M 29 July 1884 29 December 1995 111 years, 153 days French Algeria Rhône-Alpes
Philomène Courbon[22] F 15 September 1900 15 February 2012 111 years, 153 days Auvergne Rhône-Alpes
85 Alba Benatti-Togni[1] F 21 March 1902 31 July 2013 111 years, 132 days Italy Île-de-France
86 Maria-Anna Higelin[6] F 18 November 1882 21 March 1994 111 years, 123 days ? ?
Jeanne Bonnot[50] F 18 October 1907[51] Living 111 years, 115 days Doubs[50] Doubs[50]
87 Geneviève de Reviers de Mauny[1] F 22 March 1902 13 July 2013 111 years, 113 days Auvergne Centre
88 Odette Ambühler[22] F 17 September 1901 31 December 2012 111 years, 105 days Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire
89 Andree Fehr-de Boulay[1] F 7 February 1882 19 May 1993 111 years, 101 days Lorraine Switzerland
Maryse Lancioni[52] F 8 November 1907 Living 111 years, 94 days Corsica[52] Alpes-Maritimes[52]
90 Blanche Aubertin[27] (née Cousin)[53] F 23 January 1900 24 April 2011 111 years, 91 days Lorraine Vosges[53]
91 Marie-Rose Mueller[30] F 20 September 1896 5 November 2007 111 years, 46 days Alsace (now Belfort) United States
Joseph Rabenda[38] M 10 January 1892 20 February 2003 111 years, 41 days Russian Poland[38][c] Allier[38]
92 Suzanne Hallet[22] F 17 September 1901 23 October 2012 111 years, 36 days Centre Centre
93 Marthe Gojon[6] F 1 November 1893 28 November 2004 111 years, 27 days Burgundy Rhône-Alpes
94 Germaine Lafond[2] F 27 July 1901 20 August 2012 111 years, 24 days ? ?
95 Berthe Sadron[6] F 18 February 1888 27 February 1999 111 years, 9 days ? ?
96 Elisabeth Chaudière[2] F 13 January 1903 20 January 2014 111 years, 7 days ? ?
97 Émilienne Nacry[22] F 10 March 1901 10 March 2012 111 years, 0 days Nord-Pas-de-Calais Nord-Pas-de-Calais
98 Germaine Fosse[41] F 24 December 1898 18 December 2009 110 years, 359 days ? ?
99 Marguerite Bellion[6] F 12 February 1891 29 January 2002 110 years, 351 days ? ?
100 Émilie Taillard[27] F 16 September 1900 31 August 2011 110 years, 349 days Franche-Comté Franche-Comté
Marie-Louise Fuset[2] F 10 February 1903 25 January 2014 110 years, 349 days Rhône-Alpes Rhône-Alpes

Biographies[edit]

Marie Brémont[edit]

Marie Marthe Augustine Lemaitre Brémont (née Mesange; 25 April 1886 – 6 June 2001)[54] was the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death at age 115 years 42 days.[55] Brémont is the second oldest French person to have ever lived, after longevity world record holder Jeanne Calment.[56]

She was born in Noëllet,[55] Western France on April 25, 1886 to a lumberjack. 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. She had no children.[54] Over the course of her life, she worked as a farmer, as well as in a pharmaceutical factory, as a nanny and as a seamstress. At 103, she was hit by a car and broke her arm as a result.[57] She died at her retirement home in Candé, Maine-et-Loire.

Germaine Haye[edit]

Germaine Haye (née Germain; 10 October 1888 – 18 April 2002)[58] was France's oldest living person for about a year, following the death of Marie Brémont on 6 June 2001 until her own death at age 113 years 190 days.[59] She was also the oldest living person in Europe and 4th oldest in the world.[60]

Haye lived in the town of Mortagne-au-Perche in Orne, Normandy, western France, since she was 19 years old. She worked as a babysitter and teacher until her three daughters grew up and left home. She then devoted herself to literature, publishing poems under the pseudonym Anne Moranget.[29] In 2000, following a femoral fracture, she became a full-time wheelchair user, and went to live in the Mortagne-au-Perche retirement home for the last two years of her life. She died in her sleep.[58][59]

Camille Loiseau[edit]

Camille Blanche Loiseau Chadal (13 February 1892 – 12 August 2006) was the oldest living person in France until her death aged 114 years 180 days. 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 death of 114-year-old Italian Virginia Dighero 28 December 2005, 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.[61] She and Japanese supercentenarian Toyo Endo were recognised by Guinness World Records as the oldest people to share a birthday.[62]

She was born in Paris and did not move 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.[63] As is common in France, Camille Loiseau chose not to use her husband's last name.

She celebrated her last birthday "with a little champagne". She died in the Hôpital Paul-Brousse in Villejuif.[63]

Marie-Simone Capony[edit]

Marie-Simone Capony (14 March 1894 – 15 September 2007) was, at age 113, the oldest living person in France.[64] 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 ranked as the fifth-oldest person in the world. Capony was born in Charlieu (Loire), and lived in a retirement facility in Cannes. She never married (her fiancé was killed in action at the beginning of the First World War in 1914).[64] Capony had not been able to walk since she turned 100, after having an operation in order to fix a broken thighbone, but she still remained in fairly good health considering her very advanced age.[64]

Mathilde Aussant[edit]

Mathilde Aussant (27 February 1898 – 23 July 2011) was a French supercentenarian who was at the time of her death believed to be the oldest verified person in France.[2][65] However, the subsequent verification of Marie-Isabelle Diaz to have been born on 22 February 1898 meant that Aussant was in fact the second oldest.

She was born in Donges, France,[66] the fifth of eleven children born to François Gaudet and Hélène Halgand. Following the death of her mother, she left Donges for Paris in 1923. She worked as a housekeeper and babysitter. She married a railroad worker from Gare Saint-Lazare, who died in 1936. In 1946, she married another railroad worker, René Aussant, who died in 1961. Their only daughter died in 2007, leaving Aussant without any immediate family.[67] In 1999, she moved to a retirement home. In 2008 she was awarded the Medal of the city of Donges. She died at a hospital in Vendôme on Saturday, 23 July 2011.

Marie-Isabelle Diaz [edit]

Marie-Isabelle Diaz (née Rodriguez, 22 February 1898 – 29 October 2011) was posthumously recognized as the oldest living French person from the death of Eugénie Blanchard on 4 November 2010, until her own death a year later.[28] She is also the oldest person ever from the French possession of Réunion. She was born in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, then an overseas territory of France. She was married and had three children. Her husband died at 60. After its independence she left the country in 1962. She then settled in Spain with one of her sons. Then she lived a few years in Rouen. She lived in Réunion from 1983 until her death. She was 113 years 249 days old when she died.[28][68]

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Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b Disputed: a November 2018 study advanced the hypothesis that Calment's daughter Yvonne usurped her identity in 1934. Yvonne was born on 19 January 1898, which would have made her 99 years old upon her death in 1997.[4]
  2. ^ a b Lorraine and Alsace were at that time parts of the German Empire. They are now in France.
  3. ^ Rabenda was born in one of the Polish villages called Piekary, then part of the Russian Empire.