A few videos of Jeanne Calment:

118th birthday

119th birthday

Aged 119

120th birthday - video 1

120th birthday - video 2

Breaking Izumi's "World Record"

121st birthday - short video

121st birthday - extended video

122nd birthday

Obituary

http://www.nealirc.org/Gerontology/OldestWoman.html

This site contains a lot of photos of Mrs. Calment.

coincidentally, Lucile Randon's twin sister, Lydie Randon was passed away on 4 August 1905, which the same date as Calment passed away (but 92 years apart).

We don't let this day pass without remembering the Matriarch of them all :salute

Inserm have released many audio interviews with Jeanne Calment, conducted between 1992 and 1995, when Jeanne would have been between 117 and 120. These interviews were primarily undertaken by her validator Jean-Marie Robine and her medical doctor Victor Lebre. In total, they consist of around 15 hours of audio interviews, surely the most extensive series of recorded interviews ever undertaken with any world's oldest person.

Here is an English translation of the blurb on the Inserm website:

This collection presents the recordings of digitized audio cassettes of interviews between Jeanne Calment and Victor Lèbre, her attending physician. These regular interviews took place between 1992 and 1995, in the retirement home where Jeanne Calment lived, in Arles, at the end of her life. The cassettes were collected by Michel Allard and Jean-Marie Robine, research director at Inserm and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, both specialists in human longevity. At the end of the collection, they published a work "The 120 years of Jeanne Calment, doyenne of humanity". This research made it possible to validate the longevity record of Jeanne Calment, before her death in 1997 at the age 122.

The collection was entrusted for digitization and made available to the Inserm/DISC Archives service. Private and/or medical information is not disseminated. This audio collection complements the fund on the centenary survey paid by Jean-Marie Robine to the Inserm Archives in 2019. This survey carried out by Inserm and the IPSEN foundation in 1990 is the first survey of this type at the European level. In particular, it made it possible to discover the existence of Jeanne Calment as the dean of humanity. The interviews presented on iPubli arise directly from this century-old investigation, the memories of life in Arles, as described by Jeanne Calment, clearly showing an entire life spanning almost three centuries, (February 21, 1875-August 4, 1997) .

26 June 1992

27 November 1992 - Part 1

27 November 1992 - Part 2

December 1992 - Interview 1

December 1992 - Interview 2

29 January 1993

10 February 1993

13 February 1993

25 February 1993

25 and 26 February 1993

15 June 1993

25 May 1994

3 June 1994

10 June 1994

10 and 15 June 1994

14 and 29 June 1994

23 June 1994

6 and 13 July 1994

7 September 1994 - Part 1

7 September 1994 - Part 2

15 and 22 September 1994

22 September 1994

15 June 1995

1995 - Unknown date

Unknown Date

@chris thanks you for those great videos!

RIP Jeanne Calment, who was born 149 years ago today. So many longevity feat, she is simply the legend of the legends!.

Her 111th birthday was the day Shigechiyo Izumi died. Izumi's record is now widely recognized as debunked, but the Japanese men still had other big connection to Ms. Calment: Jiroemon Kimura, is the last person in the world to be over 100 years old when Calment's death.

I don't think most people have thought about it, but the last person who was already supercentenarian when Jeanne Calment died is Maud Farris-Luse (21 January 1887 – 18 March 2002) who died less than 5 years after Calment's death.

Maria Branyas Morera is the last living person to have been over the age of 90 at the time of Jeanne Calment’s death.

I'm just curious, what age comparison would you say Jeanne Calment was on par with? According to Wikipedia, she suffered from a moderately weak heart at age 115, but was still in relatively good health all her life. In my opinion, it seemed like Jeanne Calment was about as healthy as a person of 65-70 at 110, but on par with an 85 year old by 115. Then it seemed like she remained about as healthy as an 85 year old till she was 122. What do you think?

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I'm just curious, what age comparison would you say Jeanne Calment was on par with? According to Wikipedia, she suffered from a moderately weak heart at age 115, but was still in relatively good health all her life. In my opinion, it seemed like Jeanne Calment was about as healthy as a person of 65-70 at 110, but on par with an 85 year old by 115. Then it seemed like she remained about as healthy as an 85 year old till she was 122. What do you think?

85 year olds generally aren't mostly blind, mostly deaf, and wheelchair-ridden, to my knowledge.

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I don't think most people have thought about it, but the last person who was already supercentenarian when Jeanne Calment died is Maud Farris-Luse (21 January 1887 – 18 March 2002) who died less than 5 years after Calment's death.

And Jiroemon Kimura, the current oldest validated man ever, was the last surviving person who was already a centenarian when Jeanne Calment died.

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Jeanne Calment was the oldest validated person ever! She reached the amazing age of 122 years and 164 days. She was also WOP for more than 9 years. The longest WOP reign ever.

FWIW, based on the distance between Jeanne Calment and #2, Kane Tanaka, I have calculated that the likelihood of someone ever surpassing Jeanne Calment's age is akin to a Danish-born man ever living to age 113+, based on an equivalent distance between age 113 and the age of Jens Peter Westergaard (age 110 years and 3 months). (Christian Mortensen was a gigantic outlier in regards to this, the Danish-born male equivalent of a woman living to age 125 or so. ) It's not impossible for a Danish-born man to eventually live to age 113+, but the odds of this ever occurring without effective anti-aging technology are extremely low, I would think.

@futurist I meant Calment's overall health in general, like her lungs, blood glucose, oxygen saturation...etc She didn't have most of the problems that are frequently seen in very old people like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, emphysema...etc Or at least not that I know of. Tbh I don't know much about her.

As a broad guide AQ, avoidance of the types of issues noted above, tends to be why our super centenarians tend to live for so long.

It’s also why medical experts are so keen to look at their DNA, cell samples and other test criteria.

The aim is to understand WHY they live so long and why can’t we all do that.

I was in Dublin for the Longevity Conference in June.

Maria Branyas Morera, was described as having very high quality cells - but not many of them now, given her extreme age.

By conparison her daughter (in her 80s) has lower quality cells but a lot more of them. The reason for the lower quality is likely due to her father’s DNA input, mixing with Maria’s DNA and logically diluting Maria’s high quality input:

The real frustration, from a medical perspective, is why (or how) did Maria’s mum and dad’s DNA combine to produce such a wonderful outcome in María?

Sadly it’s far too late to test for that, as both are of course, long gone.

The research work, which identifies VALIDATED super centenarians, is then used for respectful medical purposes - to try and understand why some people are largely immune from the things that get most of us, well before 110.

That’s also why the data integrity remains so important - and why the GRG senior personnel are not only allegedly stealing data from other researchers, but also compromising the medical process - through poor validations - apparently just for personal image reasons.

The so called leader now, describes himself as a scientist (when I’ve met with him), yet based on the significant evidence provided to date … appears to be acting rather differently.

@chrisr Maybe its because two genes mix together to create one abnormal gene, like how in terms of height two extremely tall genes of people who are around 2 meters tall mix together to create a man that is 2.2-2.3 meters tall. Just my two cents.

27th Anniversary. And still 'no one has beaten that'...

... paraphrasing what Jeanne allegedly said on her 122nd birthday