List of French supercentenarians

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Marie Brémont (1886–2001) is the fifth-oldest Frenchwoman ever and was the world's oldest person from November 2000 to June 2001. 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. France was home to the oldest human being ever whose longevity is well documented, Jeanne Calment, who lived in Arles for her entire life of 122 years and 164 days. The oldest verified Frenchman ever is Maurice Floquet, a veteran of World War I who lived to age 111 years and 320 days across three centuries (1894–2006).

The oldest known living French person is Marie-Rose Tessier, born 21 May 1910 and aged as of 24 April 2024.

100 oldest French people ever

      Deceased       Living

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth date	Death date	Age	Birthplace	Place of death or residence
01	Jeanne Calment	F	21 February 1875	4 August 1997		Bouches-du-Rhône	Bouches-du-Rhône
02	Lucile Randon	F	11 February 1904	17 January 2023		Gard	Var
03	Jeanne Bot	F	14 January 1905	22 May 2021		Pyrénées-Orientales	Pyrénées-Orientales
04	Valentine Ligny	F	22 October 1906	4 January 2022		Pas-de-Calais	Somme
05	Marie Brémont	F	25 April 1886	6 June 2001		Maine-et-Loire	Maine-et-Loire
06	Eudoxie Baboul	F	1 October 1901	1 July 2016		French Guiana	French Guiana
07	Eugénie Blanchard, aka Sœur Cyria Costa	F	16 February 1896	4 November 2010		Saint Barthélemy	Saint Barthélemy
08	Lydie Vellard	F	18 March 1875	17 September 1989		Loiret	Loiret
09	Gabrielle Valentine des Robert	F	4 June 1904	3 December 2018		Ardennes	Loire-Atlantique
10	Camille Loiseau	F	13 February 1892	12 August 2006		Paris	Val-de-Marne
11	Anne Primout	F	5 October 1890	26 March 2005		French Algeria	Pyrénées-Orientales
12	Honorine Rondello	F	28 July 1903	19 October 2017		Côtes-du-Nord	Var
13	Marie-Louise Taterode	F	17 July 1906	3 September 2020		Corrèze	Puy-de-Dôme
14	Marie Liguinen	F	26 March 1901	2 April 2015		Corrèze	Essonne
15	Marie-Thérèse Bardet	F	2 June 1898	8 June 2012		Morbihan	Loire-Atlantique
16	Olympe Amaury	F	19 June 1901	12 May 2015		Nièvre	Loiret
17	Luce Maced	F	2 May 1886	25 February 2000		Guadeloupe	Martinique
18	Marcelle Narbonne	F	25 March 1898	1 January 2012		French Algeria	Pyrénées-Orientales
19	Clémentine Solignac	F	7 September 1894	25 May 2008		Haute-Loire	Haute-Loire
20	Huguette Masson	F	27 June 1904	5 March 2018		Sarthe	Sarthe
21	Marie-Isabelle Diaz	F	22 February 1898	29 October 2011		French Algeria	Réunion
22	Germaine Haye aka Anne Moranget	F	10 October 1888	18 April 2002		Orne	Orne
23	Marie-Simone Capony	F	14 March 1894	15 September 2007		Loire	Alpes-Maritimes
	Marie-Florentine Jousseaume	F	17 June 1907	19 December 2020		Vendée	Vendée
25	Marie-Louise Berthelot	F	29 July 1907	16 January 2021		Maine-et-Loire	Mayenne
26	Mathilde Aussant	F	27 February 1898	23 July 2011		Loire-Atlantique	Loir-et-Cher
27	Madeleine Chat	F	10 August 1907	14 December 2020		Yonne	Yonne
28	Julie Montabord	F	17 April 1906	18 July 2019		Martinique	Martinique
29	Julia Sinédia-Cazour	F	12 July 1892	6 October 2005		Réunion	Réunion
30	Élisabeth Collot	F	21 June 1903	4 September 2016		Haute-Marne	Isère
31	Juliette Bildé	F	30 September 1909	13 December 2022		Gironde	Deux-Sèvres
32	Marthe Roch	F	19 August 1907	21 September 2020		Guadeloupe	Guadeloupe
33	Irèna Martial	F	28 June 1909	29 June 2022		Guadeloupe	Guadeloupe
34	Mathilde Lartigue	F	24 March 1905	24 March 2018		Hérault	Hérault
35	Pauline Chabanny	F	20 August 1881	13 August 1994		Loiret	Puy-de-Dôme
36	Thérèse Ladigue	F	15 February 1903	5 February 2016		Rhône	Rhône
37	Jeanne Dumaine	F	19 March 1886	3 January 1999		Paris	Essonne
38	Marie Mornet	F	4 April 1894	5 January 2007		Vienne	Vienne
39	Henriette Bœuf	F	4 November 1903	23 July 2016		Marne	Marne
40	Joséphine Choquet	F	6 June 1878	14 February 1991		Côtes-du-Nord	Somme
41	Marie-Rose Tessier	F	21 May 1910	Living		Vendée	Vendée
42	Lucie Péré-Pucheu	F	13 August 1893	6 April 2006		Pyrénées-Atlantiques	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
43	Gabrielle Ormand	F	24 February 1909	8 October 2021		Sarthe	Essonne
44	Mélanie Leblais	F	4 September 1903	3 April 2016		Loire-Atlantique	Sarthe
45	Irénise Moulonguet	F	6 November 1900	28 May 2013		Martinique	Martinique
46	Ilse Weiszfeld	F	16 October 1904	22 April 2017		Austria	Paris
46	Marie-Louise L'Huillier	F	26 June 1895	28 December 2007		New Caledonia	New Caledonia
48	Marguerite Petit	F	3 July 1883	21 December 1995		Lorraine	Moselle
	Jules Théobald	M	17 April 1909	5 October 2021		Martinique	Martinique
50	Marcel Meys	M	12 July 1909	15 December 2021		Isère	Isère
51	Eugénie Roux	F	24 January 1874	20 June 1986		Franche-Comté	Rhône-Alpes
52	Yvonne Bory	F	14 March 1891	7 August 2003		Gironde	Eure-et-Loir
53	Marie-Louise Delefortrie	F	18 May 1908	29 September 2020		Nord	Nord
54	Jeanne Colas	F	9 June 1886	15 October 1998		Ardennes	Côte-d'Or
55	Suzanne Burrier	F	14 March 1901	14 July 2013		Allier	Allier
	Marie-Antoinette Radix	F	7 December 1904	8 April 2017		Rhône	Rhône
57	Agnès Fagoo	F	19 December 1894	12 April 2007		Nord	Nord
58	Constance Cariou	F	8 May 1895	29 August 2007		Loire-Inférieure	Alpes-Maritimes
59	Mathilde Dupray	F	31 October 1903	18 February 2016		Seine-Inférieure	Côtes-d'Armor
60	Henriette Roques	F	8 September 1905	20 December 2017		Hérault	Hérault
61	Marguerite Bailly	F	6 March 1907	12 June 2019		Aisne	Vosges
62	Célestine Colombeau	F	17 February 1884	9 May 1996		Maine-et-Loire	Maine-et-Loire
63	Marie-Louise Jeancard	F	5 September 1876	25 November 1988		Alpes-Maritimes {{{1}}}	Alpes-Maritimes
64	Elisabeth Frénoy	F	7 February 1907	20 April 2019		Marne	Marne
65	Augustine Tessier, aka Sister Julia	F	2 January 1869	8 March 1981		(unknown)	Languedoc-Roussillon
66	Paule Bronzini	F	7 July 1900	29 August 2012		Bouches-du-Rhône	Vaucluse
67	Mathilde Octavie Tafna	F	16 March 1895	1 May 2007		Guadeloupe	Guadeloupe
68	Eugénie Dauzat	F	6 December 1900	12 January 2013		Puy-de-Dôme	Puy-de-Dôme
69	Olympe Pidancet	F	24 January 1897	19 February 2009		Yonne	Rhône
70	Andrée Bertoletto	F	1 January 1911	Living		Mayenne	Mayenne
71	Fanny Bruel	F	18 March 1893	29 March 2005		Cantal	Paris
72	Blanche Marie Grosdidier	F	3 October 1889	10 October 2001		Meuse	Oise
	Isabelle Boizeau	F	18 November 1905	25 November 2017		Yonne	Loiret
	Jeanne Bonnot	F	18 October 1907	25 October 2019		Doubs	Doubs
	Berthe Budet	F	3 October 1909	10 October 2021		Spain	Gard
76	Marie-Hélène Chanteperdrix	F	5 March 1886	9 March 1998		Nord	Seine-Saint-Denis
77	Louise Fleury	F	8 March 1888	9 March 2000		Paris	Oise
78	Clotilde Roy	F	23 October 1889	13 October 2001		Paris	Paris
79	Madeleine Mièze	F	28 April 1901	14 April 2013		Pas-de-Calais	Nord
80	Marie Combéléran	F	8 June 1889	23 May 2001		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
83	Jeanne Bournat	F	22 January 1903	20 December 2014		Puy-de-Dôme	Puy-de-Dôme
84	Jeannette Gayraud	F	12 May 1892	31 March 2004		Bouches-du-Rhône	Var
85	Zoé Vérot	F	15 February 1884	4 January 1996		Yonne	Yonne
86	Germaine Stadler	F	29 March 1893	14 February 2005		Pas-de-Calais	Seine-Maritime
87	Maurice Floquet	M	25 December 1894	10 November 2006		Haute-Marne	Var
88	Maria Richard	F	28 November 1900	11 October 2012		Belgium	Hérault
89	Marguerite Conrad	F	15 March 1902	26 January 2014		Paris	Hauts-de-Seine
90	Amelina Debert	F	19 July 1908	27 May 2020		Pas-de-Calais	Oise
	Odile de Plunkett	F	7 January 1909	15 November 2020		Paris	Loiret
92	Maria Zaccaria	F	24 November 1905	2 October 2017		Sicily, Italy	Hérault
93	Andrée Roy	F	23 February 1906	26 December 2017		Vosges	Hauts-de-Seine
94	Maryse Lancioni	F	8 November 1907	9 September 2019		Corsica	Alpes-Maritimes
95	Anne-Marie Papail	F	14 June 1909	11 April 2021		Ille-et-Vilaine	Ille-et-Vilaine
96	Marcelle Adda	F	3 June 1905	22 March 2017		Paris	Yvelines
97	Mathilde Gauchou	F	19 March 1879	30 December 1990		Tarn	Tarn
98	Pauline Sevaille	F	20 November 1890	29 August 2002		Ille-et-Vilaine	Eure
99	Marie-Virginie Duhem	F	2 August 1866	25 April 1978		Nord	Nord
100	Georgette Léveillé	F	28 June 1903	14 March 2015		Paris	Hauts-de-Seine

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 and 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. Brémont remarried to a taxi driver, Florentin Brémont, who died in 1967. They 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 115-year-old Marie Brémont on 6 June 2001 until her own death at age 113 years and 190 days. At the time of her death, she was 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 became reliant on to a wheelchair and went to live in the Mortagne-au-Perche retirement home for 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 and 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 him just fifteen days later. Loiseau 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, aged 110, she was taken on a trip to revisit her native Paris again. She died in hospital, six months after her one-hundred and fourteenth birthday.

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. Diaz 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, Diaz left her homeland in 1962. She then settled in Spain with one of her sons and lived in Rouen for a few years. Diaz lived in Réunion from 1983 until her death. She was 113 years and 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 confirmed as having been the second oldest, when Marie-Isabelle Diaz was verified to have been born a few days earlier than her, on 22 February 1898, and died three months after her.

Aussant was born in Donges, 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 child, a daughter, died in 2007, leaving Aussant without any immediate family. In 1999, she moved to a retirement home. In 2008, aged 110, Aussant was awarded the "Medal of the city of Donges". She eventually died at a hospital in the Vendôme region on 23 July 2011, aged 113 years and 146 days.