List of French supercentenarians

This is a list of verified French supercentenarians (people from France who reached age at least 110 years).

French supercentenarians

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth	Death	Age	Region	Department
1	Jeanne Calment	F	21 February 1875	4 August 1997	122 years, 164 days	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur	Bouches-du-Rhone
2	Marie Brémont	F	25 April 1886	6 June 2001	115 years, 42 days	Pays de la Loire	Maine-et-Loire
3	Lydie Vellard	F	18 March 1875	17 September 1989	114 years, 183 days	Pays de la Loire	Maine-et-Loire
4	Camille Loiseau	F	13 February 1892	12 August 2006	114 years, 180 days	Île-de-France	Val-de-Marne
5	Eugénie Blanchard	F	16 February 1896	Living	128 years, 286 days	Saint Barthelemy
6	Luce Maced	F	2 May 1886	25 February 2000	113 years, 299 days	Martinique
7	Clémentine Solignac	F	7 September 1894	25 May 2008	113 years, 261 days	Auvergne	Haute-Loire
8	Germaine Haye	F	10 October 1888	18 April 2002	113 years, 190 days	Basse-Normandie	Orne
9	Marie-Simone Capony	F	14 March 1894	15 September 2007	113 years, 185 days	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur	Alpes-Maritimes
10	Julia Sinédia-Cazour	F	12 July 1892	6 October 2005	113 years, 86 days	Réunion
11	Pauline Chabanny	F	20 August 1881	13 August 1994	112 years, 358 days	Île-de-France	Paris
12	Jeanne Dumaine	F	19 March 1886	3 January 1999	112 years, 290 days	Île-de-France	Paris
13	Marie Mornet	F	4 April 1894	5 January 2007	112 years, 276 days	Poitou-Charentes	Vienne
14	Josephine Choquet	F	6 June 1878	14 February 1991	112 years, 253 days	Île-de-France	Paris
15	Lucie Péré-Pucheu	F	13 August 1893	6 April 2006	112 years, 236 days	Aquitaine	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
16	Marie-Louise Lhuillier	F	26 June 1895	28 December 2007	112 years, 185 days	New Caledonia
17	Marguerite Petit	F	3 July 1883	31 December 1995	112 years, 181 days	Auvergne	Bourbonnais
18	Eugénie Roux	F	24 January 1874	20 June 1986	112 years, 147 days	Rhône-Alpes	Rhône-Alpes
19	Yvonne Bory	F	14 March 1891	7 August 2003	112 years, 146 days	Bretagne	Rennes
20	Jeanne Colas	F	9 June 1886	15 October 1998	112 years, 128 days	?	?
21	Agnès Fagoo	F	19 December 1894	12 April 2007	112 years, 114 days	Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Nord
22	Constance Cariou	F	8 May 1895	29 August 2007	112 years, 113 days	?	?
23	Célestine Colombeau	F	17 February 1884	9 May 1996	112 years, 82 days	?	?
24	Augustine Tessier	F	2 January 1869	8 March 1981	112 years, 65 days	?	?
25	Mathilde Octavie Tafna Albina	F	16 March 1895	1 May 2007	112 years, 46 days	Guadeloupe
26	Eva Jourdan	F	25 March 1880	6 May 1992	112 years, 42 days	?	?
27	Olympe Pidancet	F	24 January 1897	19 February 2009	112 years, 26 days	Rhône-Alpes	Rhône
28	Blanche Marie Grosdidier	F	3 October 1889	10 October 2001	112 years, 7 days	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur	?
29	Marie-Hélène Chanteperdrix	F	5 March 1886	9 March 1998	112 years, 4 days	Nord-Pas-de-Calais	?
30	Louise Fleury-Mallet	F	8 March 1888	9 March 2000	112 years, 1 day	?	?
31	Clotilde Roy	F	23 October 1889	13 October 2001	111 years, 355 days	?	?
32	Marie Combéléran	F	8 June 1889	23 May 2001	111 years, 349 days	?	?
33	Jeannette Gayraud	F	12 May 1892	31 March 2004	111 years, 324 days	?	?
34	Zoé Vérot	F	15 February 1884	4 January 1996	111 years, 323 days	?	?
35	Germaine Stadler	F	29 March 1893	14 February 2005	111 years, 322 days	?	?
36	Maurice Floquet	M	25 December 1894	10 November 2006	111 years, 320 days	Champagne-Ardenne	Var
37	Félicité Jandia	F	12 February 1881	7 December 1992	111 years, 299 days	Guadeloupe
38	Mathilde Aussant	F	27 February 1898	Living	126 years, 275 days	Pays de la Loire	Loire-Atlantique
39	Mathilde Gauchou	F	19 March 1879	30 December 1990	111 years, 286 days	?	?
40	Pauline Sevaille	F	20 November 1890	29 August 2002	111 years, 282 days	?	?
41	Marie-Virginie Duhem	F	2 August 1866	25 April 1978	111 years, 266 days	?	?
42	Marie-Louise Bernède	F	6 April 1894	11 December 2005	111 years, 249 days	?	?
43	Marie-Louise Lambert	F	9 April 1888	11 December 1999	111 years, 246 days	?	?
44	Catherine Trompeter	F	26 March 1895	18 November 2006	111 years, 235 days	?	?
45	Henriette Mégévand	F	24 June 1887	7 January 1999	111 years, 197 days	?	?
46	Marie-Thérèse Bardet	F	2 June 1898	Living	126 years, 179 days	Pays de la Loire	Loire-Atlantique
47	Maria Bigue	F	10 September 1886	12 March 1998	111 years, 183 days	?	?
48	Emile Fourcade	M	29 July 1884	29 December 1995	111 years, 153 days	?	?
49	Maria-Anna Higelin	F	18 November 1882	21 March 1994	111 years, 123 days	?	?
50	Marie-Rose Mueller	F	20 September 1896	5 November 2007	111 years, 46 days	?	?
51	Marthe Gojon	F	1 November 1893	28 November 2004	111 years, 27 days	?	?
52	Berthe Sadron	F	18 February 1888	27 February 1999	111 years, 9 days	?	?
53	Margueritte Bellion	F	12 February 1891	29 January 2002	110 years, 351 days	?	?
54	Madleine Delmotte	F	20 April 1896	31 March 2007	110 years, 345 days	Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Nord
55	Elisabeth Seube	F	8 April 1889	6 March 2000	110 years, 333 days	?	?
56	Aline Beslay	F	17 June 1898	6 May 2009	110 years, 323 days	Centre	?
57	Jeanne Violette	F	12 January 1889	27 November 1999	110 years, 319 days	?	?
58	Marie-Louise Thurneyssen	F	21 August 1888	27 June 1999	110 years, 310 days	?	?
59	Marie-Isabelle Tuffal	F	14 January 1889	12 November 1999	110 years, 302 days	?	?
60	Mathilde Rouené	F	13 August 1895	20 May 2006	110 years, 280 days	?	?
61	Caroline Campistron	F	27 May 1867	2 March 1978	110 years, 279 days	?	?
62	Henri Pérignon	M	14 October 1879	18 June 1990	110 years, 247 days	?	?
63	Alexis Daigneau	F	4 August 1890	3 April 2001	110 years, 242 days	?	?
64	Jeanne Berget	F	13 July 1898	6 March 2009	110 years, 236 days	Bourgogne	Cote d'Or
65	Marie-Céline Maissonniau	F	26 October 1876	17 June 1987	110 years, 234 days	?	?
	Hélène Carrion	F	14 October 1898	5 June 2009	110 years, 234 days	?	?
67	Marcelle-Jeanne Colas	F	28 July 1897	11 March 2008	110 years, 227 days	?	?
68	Anne-Marie Héméry	F	25 July 1889	6 March 2000	110 years, 225 days	?	?
69	Bernard Delholm	M	9 July 1885	7 February 1996	110 years, 213 days	Île-de-France	Val-de-Marne
70	Marie Laborie	F	26 April 1887	22 November 1997	110 years, 210 days	?	?
71	Frederique Noël	F	19 September 1868	14 April 1979	110 years, 207 days	?	?
72	Aimé Avignon	M	2 February 1897	23 August 2007	110 years, 202 days	Languedoc-Roussillon	Gard
73	Juliette Baudoin	F	19 February 1883	24 August 1993	110 years, 186 days	?	?
74	Marthe Denis	F	7 December 1888	20 May 1999	110 years, 164 days	?	?
75	Mélanie Dormois	F	8 July 1887	13 December 1997	110 years, 158 days	?	?
76	Marie-Jeanne Portet-Rouch	F	29 May 1897	27 October 2007	110 years, 151 days	?	?
77	Juliette Merceron	F	23 April 1888	16 September 1998	110 years, 146 days	?	?
78	Elisa Esnault	F	10 December 1870	25 April 1981	110 years, 136 days	?	?
79	Alexandrine Renaud	F	8 September 1887	18 January 1998	110 years, 132 days	?	?
80	Jean Teillet	M	6 November 1866	17 March 1977	110 years, 131 days	Île-de-France	Hauts-de-Seine
	Ismène Baffard	F	24 October 1898	4 March 2009	110 years, 131 days	Guadeloupe
82	Anna Boulet	F	28 June 1889	19 October 1999	110 years, 113 days	?	?
83	Marthe Bellecour	F	18 April 1883	4 August 1993	110 years, 108 days	?	?
84	Elisabeth Vuillemot	F	23 September 1895	3 January 2006	110 years, 102 days	?	?
85	Louis de Cazenave	M	16 October 1897	20 January 2008	110 years, 96 days	Auvergne	Haute-Loire
86	Elisa Cubells	F	20 August 1885	16 November 1995	110 years, 88 days	?	?
87	Annette Faron	F	15 February 1869	12 May 1979	110 years, 86 days	?	?
88	Marie Vigne-Ben Cimon	F	23 September 1894	7 December 2004	110 years, 75 days	?	?
89	Marie-Madeleine Helio	F	7 November 1898	5 January 2009	110 years, 59 days	?	?
90	Marie-Louise Renier	F	21 November 1898	5 January 2009	110 years, 45 days	?	?
91	Marie-Thérèse Cau	F	9 January 1884	21 February 1994	110 years, 43 days	?	?
92	Nouria Hutin	F	12 July 1884	23 August 1994	110 years, 42 days	?	?
93	Marie Bouvier	F	26 November 1883	30 December 1993	110 years, 34 days	?	?
94	Marthe Ardouin-Schmid	F	12 July 1893	13 August 2003	110 years, 32 days	?	?
95	Adeline Soboul	F	8 February 1890	9 March 2000	110 years, 30 days	?	?
96	Sophie Dernoncourt	F	9 May 1884	7 June 1994	110 years, 29 days	?	?
	Jeanne Samson	F	5 November 1890	4 December 2000	110 years, 29 days	?	?
98	Marie Fastayre	F	17 May 1888	30 May 1998	110 years, 13 days	?	?
99	Jeanne Bonnard-Rochet	F	29 November 1897	29 November 2007	110 years, 0 days	?	?

French immigrant/emigrant supercentenarians

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth	Death	Age	Country of birth	Country of death
1	Anne Primout	F	5 October 1890	26 March 2005	114 years, 172 days	Algeria	France
2	George Frederick Ives	M	17 November 1881	12 April 1993	111 years, 146 days	France	Canada
3	Marie-Rose Mueller	F	20 September 1896	5 November 2007	111 years, 46 days	France	United States
4	Lazare Ponticelli	M	7 December 1897	12 March 2008	110 years, 96 days	Italy	France

Oldest living people in France since 1975

From	To	Name	Sex	Age when oldest	Lived	Region
?	4 September 1975	Marie-Ernestine Compain	F	?–109	23 October 1865 – 4 September 1975 109 years, 316 days	?
4 September 1975	25 April 1978 (2 years, 233 days)	Marie-Virginie Duhem	F	109–111	2 August 1866 – 25 April 1978 111 years, 266 days	?
25 April 1978	14 April 1979 (354 days)	Frederique Noël	F	109–110	19 June 1868 – 14 April 1979 110 years, 299 days	?
14 April 1979	8 March 1981 (1 year, 328 days)	Augustine Teissier	F	110–112	2 January 1869 – 8 March 1981 112 years, 65 days	Languedoc-Roussillon
8 March 1981	25 April 1981 (48 days)	Elisa Esnault	F	110	10 December 1870 – 25 April 1981 110 years, 136 days	Bourgogne
25 April 1981	20 June 1986 (5 years, 56 days)	Eugenie Roux	F	107–112	24 January 1874 – 20 June 1986 112 years, 147 days	Rhône-Alpes
20 June 1986	4 August 1997 (11 years, 45 days)	Jeanne Calment	F	111–122	21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997 122 years, 164 days	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
4 August 1997	9 March 1998 (217 days)	Marie-Helene Chanteperdrix	F	111–112	5 March 1886 – 9 March 1998 112 years, 4 days	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
9 March 1998	3 January 1999 (300 days)	Jeanne Dumaine	F	111–112	19 March 1886 – 3 January 1999 112 years, 290 days	Île-de-France
3 January 1999	6 June 2001 (2 years, 154 days)	Marie Brémont	F	112–115	25 April 1886 – 6 June 2001 115 years, 42 days	Pays de la Loire
6 June 2001	18 April 2002 (316 days)	Germaine Haye	F	112–113	10 October 1888 – 18 April 2002 113 years, 190 days	Basse-Normandie
18 April 2002	12 August 2006 (4 years, 116 days)	Camille Loiseau	F	110–114	13 February 1892 – 12 August 2006 114 years, 180 days	Île-de-France
12 August 2006	15 September 2007 (1 year, 34 days)	Marie-Simone Capony	F	112–113	14 March 1894 – 15 September 2007 113 years, 185 days	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
15 September 2007	25 May 2008 (253 days)	Clémentine Solignac	F	113	7 September 1894 – 25 May 2008 113 years, 261 days	Auvergne
25 May 2008	Present (16 years, 187 days)	Eugénie Blanchard	F	112–113*	born 16 February 1896 age 128 years, 286 days	Saint Barthelemy

Unverified living French supercentenarians

Rank	Name	Sex	Claimed birth	Claimed age as of 28 November	Region
1	Marcelle Narbonne[1]	F	24 March 1898	126 years, 249 days	French Algeria (now Algeria) France
2	Marie Coulon[2]	F	4 April 1898	126 years, 238 days	?
3	Marie Lemoigne[3]	F	18 May 1899	125 years, 194 days	Basse-Normandie
4	Hélène Cazes	F	29 September 1899	125 years, 60 days	Poitou-Charentes
5	Jeanne Gagnard[4]	F	29 October 1899	125 years, 30 days	Pays de la Loire

People

Jean Teillet

Jean Teillet (6 November 1866 – 17 March 1977) was a French supercentenarian from Issy-les-Moulineaux. When he died at 110 years 131 days, he was the oldest man in France, and may have been the oldest living man (as the case of Japanese man Shigechiyo Izumi remains doubtful).

Jeanne Calment

Main article: Jeanne Calment

Jeanne Louise Calment (IPA: [ʒan lwiz kal'mɑ̃]; 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) reached the longest confirmed lifespan in history at 122 years 164 days.

Henri Pérignon

Henri Pérignon (Cabourg, France, 14 October 1879 – 18 June 1990) became the oldest man in the world after the death of John Evans. He held this title for only eight days.

Marie Brémont

Main article: Marie Brémont

Marie Marthe Augustine Mesange Lemaitre Brémont (25 April 1886 – 6 June 2001) was a French supercentenarian, and the oldest recognized living person from November 2000 until her death and the second French person to hold the title, after Jeanne Calment.

Germaine Haye

Main article: Germaine Haye

Germaine Germain Haye (10 October 1888 – 18 April 2002) was a supercentenarian and France's oldest living person for about a year, following the passing of 115-year-old Marie Brémont on 6 June 2001 until her own death at age 113 years 190 days, when she ranked as one of the 100 oldest people ever, and she remained on this list until mid-March 2008.

Anne Primout

Anne Primout (5 October 1890 – 26 March 2005) was the oldest person from the then French possession of Algeria and the fifth-oldest French person on record.

Camille Loiseau

Camille Blanche Loiseau Chadal (13 February 1892 – 12 August 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 Capony.

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 28 January 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 13 August 1910 she married René Frédéric Chadal, although their marriage lasted only 15 days. 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.

Julia Sinédia-Cazour

Main article: Julia Sinédia-Cazour

Marie-Julia Sinédia-Cazour (12 July 1892 – 6 October 2005) was the oldest person from the French possession of Réunion and the eighth-oldest French person on record.

Lucie Péré-Pucheu

'Anne' Lucie Léonie Péré-Pucheu (13 August 1893 – 6 April 2006, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques), 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 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.

Marie Mornet Robin

Marie Elise Mornet Robin (4 April 1894 – 5 January 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 276 days. She was born in Lessart and died in L'Isle Jourdain. At the time of her passing she also ranked third-oldest in Western Europe and 13th-oldest in the world.

Marie-Clémentine Solignac

Marie-Clémentine Judith Solignac née Veyrac (7 September 1894 – 25 May 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 22 March 2008 death of Arbella Ewing from the United States, until Solignac's death two months later. She was born in Vorey and was living in a retirement home there at the time of her death, aged 113 years 261 days. Her daughter, who had lived in the same nursing home as she had, died on 20 September 2007 at the age of 91.

As of January 2009, Solignac is listed as one of the 100 longest lived people ever.

Maurice Floquet

Main article: Maurice Floquet

Maurice Noël Floquet (25 December 1894 – 10 November 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.

Mathilde Octavie Tafna

Mathilde Octavie Tafna Albina (16 March 1895 – 1 May 2007) was the oldest living person of a French possession since the death of 113-year-old Julia Sinédia-Cazour on 6 October 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.

Marie-Louise Lhuillier

Marie-Louise Cathérine Lhuillier (also spelled L'Huillier) (26 June 1895 – 28 December 2007) was a French supercentenarian, the second-oldest person in France and 14th-oldest in the world, at age 112 years 185 days when she died, in addition to being the oldest ever person to have lived in New Caledonia. She became the oldest person in the Southern Hemisphere after the death of Australian Myra Nicholson on 20 September 2007.

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. She outlived the average life expectancy of women in 1900 by over 60 years, but she was still approximately 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.

Aimé Avignon

Aimé Avignon (2 February 1897 – 23 August 2007) was the oldest living man in France, at 110 years of age, from the death of 111-year-old Maurice Floquet on 10 November 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 20 January 2008.

Louis de Cazenave

Main article: Louis de Cazenave

Louis de Cazenave (16 October 1897 – 20 January 2008) was, at the time of his death, the oldest France poilu still alive, following the 10 November 2006 death of the 111-year-old Maurice Floquet. De Cazenave was also the oldest living Frenchman, as of 23 August 2007. As of 11 December 2007, he was the fourth-oldest man in Europe and the eleventh-oldest man in the world as well, until his own death 40 days later.

Lazare Ponticelli

Main article: Lazare Ponticelli

Lazare Ponticelli (7 December 1897 – 12 March 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.