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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. France was home to the oldest human being ever whose longevity was well documented, Jeanne Calment, who lived in Arles for 122 years and 164 days.
The oldest living French person, is Lucile Randon, born 11 February 1904, aged 116 years, 112 days as of 2 June 2020. Randon is also the second oldest living person in the world behind Japanese woman Kane Tanaka. 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).
100 oldest French people ever
Deceased Living
Rank | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age | Département, region or country of birth | Département, region or country of death or residence |
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01 | Jeanne Calment | F | 21 February 1875 | 4 August 1997 | 122 years, 164 days | Bouches-du-Rhône | Bouches-du-Rhône |
02 | Lucile Randon, aka Sœur André | F | 11 February 1904 | Living | 116 years, 112 days | Gard | Var |
03 | Jeanne Bot | F | 14 January 1905 | Living | 115 years, 140 days | Pyrénées-Orientales | Pyrénées-Orientales |
04 | Marie Brémont (née Mésange) | F | 25 April 1886 | 6 June 2001 | 115 years, 42 days | Maine-et-Loire | Maine-et-Loire |
05 | Eudoxie Baboul | F | 1 October 1901 | 1 July 2016 | 114 years, 274 days | French Guiana | French Guiana |
06 | Eugénie Blanchard, aka Sœur Cyria Costa | F | 16 February 1896 | 4 November 2010 | 114 years, 261 days | Saint Barthélemy | Saint Barthélemy |
07 | Lydie Vellard (née Hudebine) | F | 18 March 1875 | 17 September 1989 | 114 years, 183 days | Loiret | Loiret |
08 | Gabrielle Valentine des Robert | F | 4 June 1904 | 3 December 2018 | 114 years, 182 days | Ardennes | Loire-Atlantique |
09 | Camille Loiseau | F | 13 February 1892 | 12 August 2006 | 114 years, 180 days | Paris | Val-de-Marne |
10 | Anne Primout (née Dupont) | F | 5 October 1890 | 26 March 2005 | 114 years, 172 days | French Algeria | Pyrénées-Orientales |
11 | Honorine Rondello (née Cadoret) | F | 28 July 1903 | 19 October 2017 | 114 years, 83 days | Côtes-du-Nord | Var |
12 | Marie Liguinen (née Brudieux) | F | 26 March 1901 | 2 April 2015 | 114 years, 7 days | Corrèze | Essonne |
13 | Marie-Thérèse Bardet (née Jégat) | F | 2 June 1898 | 8 June 2012 | 114 years, 6 days | Morbihan | Loire-Atlantique |
14 | Olympe Amaury (née Vignel) | F | 19 June 1901 | 12 May 2015 | 113 years, 327 days | Nièvre | Loiret |
15 | Marie-Louise Taterode | F | 17 July 1906 | Living | 113 years, 321 days | Corrèze | Puy-de-Dôme |
16 | Luce Maced | F | 2 May 1886 | 25 February 2000 | 113 years, 299 days | Guadeloupe | Martinique |
17 | Marcelle Narbonne | F | 25 March 1898 | 1 January 2012 | 113 years, 282 days | French Algeria | Pyrénées-Orientales |
18 | Clémentine Solignac (née Veyrac) | F | 7 September 1894 | 25 May 2008 | 113 years, 261 days | Haute-Loire | Haute-Loire |
19 | Huguette Masson (née Bouteloup) | F | 27 June 1904 | 5 March 2018 | 113 years, 251 days | Sarthe | Sarthe |
20 | Marie-Isabelle Diaz (née Rodriguès) | F | 22 February 1898 | 29 October 2011 | 113 years, 249 days | French Algeria | Réunion |
21 | Valentine Ligny | F | 22 October 1906 | Living | 113 years, 224 days | Pas-de-Calais | Somme |
22 | Germaine Haye (née Germain) aka Anne Moranget | F | 10 October 1888 | 18 April 2002 | 113 years, 190 days | Orne | Orne |
23 | Marie-Simone Capony | F | 14 March 1894 | 15 September 2007 | 113 years, 185 days | Loire | Alpes-Maritimes |
24 | Mathilde Aussant (née Gaudet) | F | 27 February 1898 | 23 July 2011 | 113 years, 146 days | Loire-Atlantique | Loir-et-Cher |
25 | Julie Montabord | F | 17 April 1906 | 18 July 2019 | 113 years, 92 days | Martinique | Martinique |
26 | Julia Sinédia (née Cazour) | F | 12 July 1892 | 6 October 2005 | 113 years, 86 days | Réunion | Réunion |
27 | Élisabeth Collot (née Benoist) | F | 21 June 1903 | 4 September 2016 | 113 years, 75 days | Haute-Marne | Isère |
28 | Mathilde Lartigue | F | 24 March 1905 | 24 March 2018 | 113 years, 0 days | Hérault | Hérault |
29 | Pauline Chabanny | F | 20 August 1881 | 13 August 1994 | 112 years, 358 days | Centre | Auvergne |
30 | Thérèse Ladigue | F | 15 February 1903 | 5 February 2016 | 112 years, 355 days | Rhône | Rhône |
31 | Marie-Florentine Jousseaume | F | 17 June 1907 | Living | 112 years, 349 days | Vendée | Vendée |
32 | Marie-Louise Berthelot | F | 29 July 1907 | Living | 112 years, 309 days | Maine-et-Loire | Mayenne |
33 | Madeleine Chat | F | 10 August 1907 | Living | 112 years, 297 days | Yonne | Yonne |
34 | Jeanne Dumaine (née Lagleize) | F | 19 March 1886 | 3 January 1999 | 112 years, 290 days | Paris | Essonne |
35 | Marthe "Esther" Roch (née Roussas) | F | 19 August 1907 | Living | 112 years, 288 days | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe |
36 | Marie Mornet (née Robin) | F | 4 April 1894 | 5 January 2007 | 112 years, 276 days | Vienne | Vienne |
37 | Henriette Bœuf (née Chambrette) | F | 4 November 1903 | 23 July 2016 | 112 years, 262 days | Marne | Marne |
38 | Joséphine Choquet | F | 6 June 1878 | 14 February 1991 | 112 years, 253 days | Brittany | Picardy |
39 | Lucie Péré-Pucheu (née Dondats) | F | 13 August 1893 | 6 April 2006 | 112 years, 236 days | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | Pyrénées-Atlantiques |
40 | Mélanie Leblais (née Jans) | F | 4 September 1903 | 3 April 2016 | 112 years, 212 days | Loire-Atlantique | Sarthe |
41 | Irénise Moulonguet (née Lermain) | F | 6 November 1900 | 28 May 2013 | 112 years, 203 days | Martinique | Martinique |
42 | Ilse Weiszfeld (née Russ) | F | 16 October 1904 | 22 April 2017 | 112 years, 188 days | Austria | Paris |
43 | Marie-Louise L'Huillier | F | 26 June 1895 | 28 December 2007 | 112 years, 185 days | New Caledonia | New Caledonia |
44 | Marguerite Petit (née Poinsot) | F | 3 July 1883 | 21 December 1995 | 112 years, 171 days | Lorraine | Moselle |
45 | Eugénie Roux | F | 24 January 1874 | 20 June 1986 | 112 years, 147 days | Franche-Comté | Rhône-Alpes |
46 | Yvonne Bory | F | 14 March 1891 | 7 August 2003 | 112 years, 146 days | Gironde | Eure-et-Loir |
47 | Jeanne Colas (née Charlier) | F | 9 June 1886 | 15 October 1998 | 112 years, 128 days | Ardennes | Côte-d'Or |
48 | Suzanne Burrier (née Moreau) | F | 14 March 1901 | 14 July 2013 | 112 years, 122 days | Allier | Allier |
Marie-Antoinette Radix | F | 7 December 1904 | 8 April 2017 | Rhône | Rhône | ||
50 | Agnès Fagoo (née Coudeville) | F | 19 December 1894 | 12 April 2007 | 112 years, 114 days | Nord | Nord |
51 | Constance Cariou (née Jouin) | F | 8 May 1895 | 29 August 2007 | 112 years, 113 days | Loire-Inférieure | Alpes-Maritimes |
52 | Mathilde Dupray | F | 31 October 1903 | 18 February 2016 | 112 years, 110 days | Seine-Inférieure | Côtes-d'Armor |
53 | Henriette Roques (née Sales) | F | 8 September 1905 | 20 December 2017 | 112 years, 103 days | Hérault | Hérault |
54 | Marguerite Bailly (née Debail) | F | 6 March 1907 | 12 June 2019 | 112 years, 98 days | Aisne | Vosges |
55 | Célestine Colombeau (née Voisine) | F | 17 February 1884 | 9 May 1996 | 112 years, 82 days | Maine-et-Loire | Maine-et-Loire |
56 | Marie-Louise Jeancard | F | 5 September 1876 | 25 November 1988 | 112 years, 81 days | Alpes-Maritimes | Alpes-Maritimes |
57 | Elisabeth Frénoy (née Popelin) | F | 7 February 1907 | 20 April 2019 | 112 years, 72 days | Marne | Marne |
58 | Augustine Teissier | F | 2 January 1869 | 8 March 1981 | 112 years, 65 days | ? | Languedoc-Roussillon |
59 | Paule Bronzini (née Laissac) | F | 7 July 1900 | 29 August 2012 | 112 years, 53 days | Bouches-du-Rhône | Vaucluse |
60 | Mathilde Octavie Tafna | F | 16 March 1895 | 1 May 2007 | 112 years, 46 days | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe |
61 | Eugénie Dauzat (née Licheron1) | F | 6 December 1900 | 12 January 2013 | 112 years, 37 days | Puy-de-Dôme | Puy-de-Dôme |
62 | Olympe Pidancet (née Jacotot) | F | 24 January 1897 | 19 February 2009 | 112 years, 26 days | Yonne | Rhône |
63 | Marie-Louise Delefortrie (née Pontet) | F | 18 May 1908 | Living | 112 years, 15 days | Nord | Nord |
64 | Fanny Bruel | F | 18 March 1893 | 29 March 2005 | 112 years, 11 days | Cantal | Paris |
65 | Blanche Marie Grosdidier (née Léonard) | F | 3 October 1889 | 10 October 2001 | 112 years, 7 days | Meuse | Oise |
Isabelle Boizeau (née Billaud) | F | 18 November 1905 | 25 November 2017 | Yonne | Loiret | ||
Jeanne Bonnot (née Paquis) | F | 18 October 1907 | 25 October 2019 | Doubs | Doubs | ||
68 | Marie-Hélène Chanteperdrix (née Paccou) | F | 5 March 1886 | 9 March 1998 | 112 years, 4 days | Nord | Seine-Saint-Denis |
69 | Louise Fleury (née Mallet) | F | 8 March 1888 | 9 March 2000 | 112 years, 1 day | Paris | Oise |
70 | Clotilde Roy (née Bouet) | F | 23 October 1889 | 13 October 2001 | 111 years, 355 days | Paris | Paris |
71 | Madeleine Mièze (née Simplot) | F | 28 April 1901 | 14 April 2013 | 111 years, 351 days | Pas-de-Calais | Nord |
72 | Marie Combéléran (née Santamans) | F | 8 June 1889 | 23 May 2001 | 111 years, 349 days | Aude | Aude |
Marguerite Duperray | F | 12 February 1906 | 27 January 2018 | Rhône | Rhône | ||
Irène Lepetit | F | 16 June 1907 | 31 May 2019 | Landes | Hautes-Pyrénées | ||
75 | Jeanne Bournat (née Chalard) | F | 22 January 1903 | 20 December 2014 | 111 years, 332 days | Puy-de-Dôme | Puy-de-Dôme |
76 | Jeannette Gayraud (née Mazzella) | F | 12 May 1892 | 31 March 2004 | 111 years, 324 days | Bouches-du-Rhône | Var |
77 | Zoé Vérot | F | 15 February 1884 | 4 January 1996 | 111 years, 323 days | Yonne | Yonne |
78 | Germaine Stadler | F | 29 March 1893 | 14 February 2005 | 111 years, 322 days | Pas-de-Calais | Seine-Maritime |
79 | Maurice Floquet | M | 25 December 1894 | 10 November 2006 | 111 years, 320 days | Haute-Marne | Var |
80 | Amelina Debert | F | 19 July 1908 | Living | 111 years, 319 days | Oise | Oise |
81 | Maria Richard (née Huart) | F | 28 November 1900 | 11 October 2012 | 111 years, 318 days | Belgium | Hérault |
82 | Marguerite Conrad | F | 15 March 1902 | 26 January 2014 | 111 years, 317 days | Paris | Hauts-de-Seine |
83 | Maria Zaccaria (née Nicastro) | F | 24 November 1905 | 2 October 2017 | 111 years, 312 days | Italy | Hérault |
84 | Andrée Roy (née Puzenat) | F | 23 February 1906 | 26 December 2017 | 111 years, 306 days | Vosges | Hauts-de-Seine |
85 | Maryse Lancioni | F | 8 November 1907 | 9 September 2019 | 111 years, 305 days | Corsica | Alpes-Maritimes |
86 | Félicité Jandia | F | 12 February 1881 | 7 December 1992 | 111 years, 299 days | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe |
87 | Marcelle Adda (née Samuel dit Albert) | F | 3 June 1905 | 22 March 2017 | 111 years, 292 days | Paris | Yvelines |
88 | Mathilde Gauchou | F | 19 March 1879 | 30 December 1990 | 111 years, 286 days | ? | ? |
89 | Pauline Sevaille | F | 20 November 1890 | 29 August 2002 | 111 years, 282 days | Ille-et-Vilaine | Eure |
90 | Marie-Virginie Duhem | F | 2 August 1866 | 25 April 1978 | 111 years, 266 days | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | Nord-Pas-de-Calais |
91 | Georgette Léveillé (née Lecat) | F | 28 June 1903 | 14 March 2015 | 111 years, 259 days | Paris | Hauts-de-Seine |
92 | Adma Tura (née Messen) | F | 25 December 1906 | 1 September 2018 | 111 years, 250 days | Lebanon | Pyrénées-Orientales |
93 | Marie-Louise Bernède (née Bourdens) | F | 6 April 1894 | 11 December 2005 | 111 years, 249 days | Landes | Landes |
94 | Marie-Louise Lambert (née Puech) | F | 9 April 1888 | 11 December 1999 | 111 years, 246 days | Tarn | Tarn |
95 | Madeleine Bréhamel (née Boulogne) | F | 31 August 1903 | 3 May 2015 | 111 years, 245 days | Seine | Paris |
96 | Juliette Trimaille | F | 21 August 1903 | 17 April 2015 | 111 years, 239 days | Doubs | Doubs |
97 | Catherine Trompeter (née Weiss) | F | 26 March 1895 | 18 November 2006 | 111 years, 237 days | Alsace | Moselle |
98 | Marie Le Barillier | F | 13 May 1906 | 12 December 2017 | 111 years, 213 days | Manche | Manche |
99 | Olive Deschamps (née Renaudat) | F | 22 February 1901 | 18 September 2012 | 111 years, 209 days | Indre | Indre |
100 | Roger Auvin | M | 20 March 1908 | 13 October 2019 | 111 years, 207 days | Vienne | Deux-Sèvres |
Biographies
Marie Brémont
Marie Marthe Augustine Lemaitre Brémont (née Mésange; 25 April 1886 – 6 June 2001) was the oldest recognised person in the world from November 2000 until her death at age 115 years 42 days. She was born in Noëllet, Maine-et-Loire, on April 25, 1886. Her first husband, railway worker Constant Lemaître, died from his wartime injuries shortly after the end of the First World War. She remarried to a taxi driver, Florentin Brémont, who died in 1967. She had no children. Over the course of her life, she worked as a farmer, a nanny, a seamstress, and in a pharmaceutical factory. At 103, she was hit by a car and broke her arm as a result. She died at a retirement home in Candé, Maine-et-Loire.
Germaine Haye
Germaine Haye (née Germain; 10 October 1888 – 18 April 2002) 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. She was also the oldest living person in Europe and fourth oldest in the world.
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 a teacher until her three daughters grew up and left home. She then devoted herself to literature, publishing poems under the pseudonym Anne Moranget. In 2000, after she fractured her femur, she was confined to a wheelchair, and went to live in the Mortagne-au-Perche retirement homefor the final two years of her life. She died in her sleep.
Camille Loiseau
Camille Blanche Loiseau (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-oldest in the world in the 2007 edition of Guinness World Records. She was the oldest person ever to share a birthday with another living person, Japanese supercentenarian Toyo Endo.
Loiseau was born in Paris, the youngest of nine children, four boys and five girls. On 13 August 1910 she married René Frédéric Chadal, but divorced fifteen days later. She never married again, and had no children of her own, but helped raise her nephews. She worked as an accountant until 1957.
She was hospitalised in 1998 due to a fall, and moved permanently to the Hôpital Paul-Brousse in Villejuif, Val-de-Marne, in January 1999. In 2002, she was taken on a trip to see her native Paris again. She died in the hospital, six months after her one-hundred and fourteenth birthday, which she had celebrated "with a little champagne".
Marie-Simone Capony
Marie-Simone Capony (14 March 1894 – 15 September 2007) was, at age 113, the oldest living person in France. 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 as her fiancé was killed in action at the beginning of the First World War in 1914. Capony was not able to walk since she turned 100, following surgery on a broken femur, but she still remained in fairly good health considering her age.
Marie-Isabelle Diaz
Marie-Isabelle Diaz (née Rodriguez, 22 February 1898 – 29 October 2011) was posthumously recognised as the oldest living French person from the death of Eugénie Blanchard on 4 November 2010, until her own death a year later. 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 aged 60. After Algerian independence, she left her homeland in 1962. She then settled in Spain with one of her sons and lived in Rouen for a few years. She lived in Réunion from 1983 until her death. She was 113 years 249 days old when she died.
Mathilde Aussant
Mathilde Aussant (née Gaudet, 27 February 1898 – 23 July 2011) was, at the time of her death, believed to be the oldest verified person in France. However, she was later deemed the second oldest, when Marie-Isabelle Diaz was verified to have been born a few days earlier than her, on 22 February 1898.
Aussant was born in Donges, France, 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 railway worker from Gare Saint-Lazare, who died in 1936. In 1946, she married another railway worker, René Aussant, who died in 1961. Their only daughter died in 2007, leaving Aussant without any immediate family. 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, aged 113 years, 146 days.
Lucile Randon
Lucile Randon was born in Alès, on 11 February 1904. She worked as a gouvernante in various families, and became a religious sister at age 41. She worked in a hospital in Vichy for 31 years, then moved to a nursing home in Haute-Savoie for 30 years, and finally to Toulon since 2009. She is known by her religious name Sœur André. She uses a wheelchair.At the age of 116 years, 112 days, she is the second oldest living person and the oldest living European person. Randon had three brothers, and a twin sister who died as an infant. On her birthday in 2019, she commented: "115 years is enough, I hope the Good Lord takes me this year". The mayor of Toulon, Hubert Falco, presented her with the city's honorary citizenship. She also met Didier Borione, 90, whom she had taken care of when he was two years old, and who located her using the internet.