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	Jeanne Calment - Biocrawler
		She married her second cousin Fernand Calment in 1896, and survived her only child (Yvonne, who died in 1934) and only grandchild (who died in 1963 in a motorcycle accident).
		She said that in her younger years, she met Vincent van Gogh, later describing him as "dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable." Soon after, Jeanne Calment was given the Guinness "world's oldest person" title at age 113 (first mentioned in Guinness World Records 1989, new claims at the end).
		On October 17, 1995 Jeanne Calment reached 120 years 238 days to become the Guinness "oldest person ever," surpassing Shigechiyo Izumi of Japan (whose claim to 120 years 237 days is subject to some doubt).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Jeanne_Calment (529 words)

	Validation of Exceptional Longevity - Jeanne Calment: Validation of the Duration of Her Life
		Death Record of Jeanne Calment: On the fourth of August 1997, at ten forty-five in the morning, Jeanne Louise Calment, born in Arles on the twenty-first of February, 1875, pensioner, resident of Arles, daughter of Nicolas Calment, deceased, and Marguerite Gilles, deceased, widow of Fernand Nicolas Calment, departed this life [DeathRecord;Arles1997:00433].
		Birth Record of Jeanne Calment's grandson: On the twenty-third of December, 1926, Yvonne Marie Nicolle Calment, aged 28, gave birth to a boy, Frédéric Jean Paul Billot, son of Joseph Charles Frédéric Billot, Captain of Artillery, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
		She was born in 1875 and lives with: Fernand Calment (born in 1868, householder, draper and employer), Yvonne Calment (born in 1898, daughter) and Marthe Fousson, born in 1885 at Fontvieille, servant.
	www.demogr.mpg.de /books/odense/6/09a.htm (1922 words)

	CALMENT, Jeanne — A t/m Z
		Jeanne Calment was dertien toen Vincent Van Gogh in haar geboorteplaats Arles neerstreek.
		Jeanne werd op 21 februari 1875 geboren in Arles, het Zuid franse plaatsje waar Vincent van Gogh zijn laatste jaren heeft gesleten.
		Jeanne is al61 jaar weduwe en het grootste drama uit haar leven was het verlies van haar enige dochter.
	www.personenencyclopedie.info /C/Calm/calmentjeanne/view (528 words)

	Believed to be world's oldest, woman in France dies at 122
		Jeanne Calment died Monday of natural causes at a retirement home in Arles, France, where she had lived for 12 years.
		Calment's mother lived until she was 86 and her father until he was 93.
		Calment was born in Arles in 1875, before the invention of the light bulb and the phonograph, the airplane and the automobile.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/97/08/05/calment.html (767 words)

	Jeanne Calment
		Jeanne Louise Calment was born in Arles, France on February 21, 1875 and died on August 4, 1997.
		When Madame Calment was 90 a lawyer called Andrei-Francois Raffray entered into an annuity contract with her (annual money in return for her flat when she died), which cost him a small fortune due to her longevity.
		Maybe he should have been a little more wary: Jeanne Calment's father lived to 94 and her mother to 86.
	www.biogs.com /famous/calment.html (238 words)

	Jeanne Calment Information
		Jeanne Louise Calment (February 21, 1875 – August 4, 1997) has the longest confirmed lifespan in history at 122 years and 164 days.
		In 1965, aged 90, with no living heirs, Jeanne Calment signed a deal, common in France, to sell her condominium apartment en viager to lawyer François Raffray.
		On October 17, 1995 Calment reached 120 years and 238 days to become the Guinness "oldest person ever," surpassing Shigechiyo Izumi of Japan, whose own claim is also subject to some doubt.
	www.bookrags.com /Jeanne_Calment (704 words)

	France's Jeanne Calment, world's oldest woman, dead at 121
		Calment died of natural causes at the Arles retirement home where she had lived for 12 years.
		Calment, the keys to long life were olive oil and port wine.
		Calment had no direct descendants, having survived her husband, her daughter and grandson.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/080597/frances.htm (645 words)

	The Oldest Woman
		Jeanne Louise Calment, the world's longest living person (who died at the age of 122) was born in Arles, France on February 21, 1875 and died on August 4, 1997 in a nursing home in Arles.
		Calment's father lived to the age of 94 and her mother to the age of 86.
		In later years, Calment lived mostly off the income from her apartment, which she sold cheaply to a lawyer when she was 90.
	anson.ucdavis.edu /~wang/calment.html (795 words)

	Jeanne Calment Memorial Hall - Moonlightchest.com
		On 10/17/1995 Jeanne Calment reached 120 years 238 days to become the Guinness "oldest person ever," surpassing Shigechiyo Izumi of Japan (whose claim to 120 years 237 days is subject to some doubt).
		Internationally, researchers are fascinated with Jeanne Calment for both her longevity and her vitality.
		Jeanne Calment was as alert as a hummingbird and shows no signs of senile dementia.
	memorial.moonlightchest.com /1 (983 words)

	France's Jeanne Calment, world's oldest woman, dead at 121
		Calment died of natural causes at the Arles retirement home where she had lived for 12 years.
		Calment eventually became the greatest attraction in the southern city of Arles since Vincent Van Gogh, who spent a year there in 1888.
		Calment as the oldest living person whose birth date could be authenticated by reliable records.
	lubbockonline.com /news/080597/frances.htm (645 words)

	Looking for the Secret to Living Past 100
		Jeanne Louise Calment was the longest living person in recorded history, having died at the age of 122 years and 164 days.
		Jeanne lived on her own until shortly before her 110th birthday, when her cooking caused an accidental fire in her apartment and it was decided that she needed to be moved to a nursing home.
		When Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122 during August of last year, less than two weeks before Chris’ 115 birthday, it appeared for a few days that Chris might be crowned the oldest person in the world.
	chetday.com /secretoflongevity.htm (2121 words)

	Happy 122nd birthday! Oldest person in the world and news about living a long life. (wowzone.com) Wish Only Well
		Jeanne Louise Calment was born in Arles, France on February 21, 1875.
		If that is accurate, Jeanne would have become the longest lived human in 1991 when she exceeded the longevity of Carrie White, who died at the age of 116.
		Young stated that to this day, Jeanne Calment is the still the oldest person who ever lived, and the only one in the Guiness Book of Records.
	www.wowzone.com /calment.htm (748 words)

	CNN - World's oldest person dies at 122 - August 4, 1997
		ARLES, France (CNN) -- Jeanne Calment, believed to be the world's oldest person, died Monday at age 122, according to her retirement home.
		No precise cause of death was given for Calment, who died in the retirement home where she spent the last 12 years of her life.
		Calment credited her longevity to Port wine, a diet rich in olive oil, and her sense of humor.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9708/04/obit.oldest (440 words)

	Jeanne Calment
		Calment held the record for longest lifespan, living until the ripest of old ages: one hundred and twenty-two years.
		She apparently met Vincent van Gogh once when he visited her father's store, and later described him as crass, dirty and badly dressed.
		Calment stayed active even in her last years -- she rode a bicycle and lived on her own until she was 110.
	www.nndb.com /people/871/000084619 (82 words)

	Jeanne Calment Biography
		Jeanne Louise Calment (February 21, 1875 - August 4, 1997) had the longest (reliably reported) lifespan for any human being in history.
		She married her second cousin Fernand Calment in 1896, and survived her only child and only grandchild.
		She died at the age of 122 years 164 days in Arles, France, having lived there all her life.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Calment_Jeanne.html (183 words)

	Psychoactive food : chocolate
		Jeanne Calment (1875-1997) and Sarah Knauss (1880-1999), were passionately fond of chocolate.
		Jeanne Calment habitually ate two pounds of chocolate per week until her physician induced her to give up sweets at the age of 119 - three years before her death aged 122.
		Life-extensionists are best advised to eat dark chocolate rather than the kinds of calorie-rich confectionery popular in America.
	www.chocolate.org (1087 words)

	The Science Advisory Board - Protocols, Product Reviews, Member Forum, and Science News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The case of 122 years old Jeanne Calment is particularly astonishing, because it stands so far apart from the previous validated longevity record (117 years, Marie Louise Meilleur).
		The outstanding case of Jeanne Calment is a clear violation both of previous experience in record registration and of the predictions of probability theory.
		It is important to emphasize that the problem with Jeanne Calment case is NOT in her extreme longevity per se, since there seems to be no fixed theoretical limit to the duration of human life (Gavrilov, Gavrilova, 1991).
	www.scienceboard.net /resources/bookreviews.asp?book=141 (929 words)

	The Thorn on the Web (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Most of the visitors were mistakenly led to believe that my site was written by Jeanne Calment herself, or that it was her "official" web page, so just about all of the messages and postings were addressed to her.
		But whereas Calment was born in an age of horses, gas lighting, and the telegraph; I grew up with nuclear energy, the space shuttle and the Internet.
		Jeanne Calment may be the oldest person in the history books, but I think she was born a hundred years too early.
	www.rose-hulman.edu /thorn/archive/981023/ros.html (931 words)

	How Long Can We Live?
		Marseille - The local dignitary who bought Jeanne Calment's apartment on an annuity arrangement 30 years ago thought he was on to a good thing: at age 90 she was unlikely to live much longer, so he would be able to take over the property.
		But yesterday, as Mrs Calment remained hale and relatively hearty at age 120, relatives of Andre-Francois Raffray were preparing to bury him: he died on Christmas Day, aged a mere 77.
		When Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997 at 122 years of age, she was acclaimed as the longest-lived person.
	flatrock.org.nz /topics/older_and_under/even_a_tree_is_old_at_that_age.htm (3334 words)

	HDE 19: Lecture 1
		The oldest age to which any person on record has lived was a French woman, Madam Jeanne Calment, who was born in the small town of Arles on February 21, 1875 and died August 4, 1997 at age 122 years, 164 days.
		It is our great advantage that Jeanne Calment was born and lived in the ancient Roman city of Arles (South of France), with its long history of civil administration.
		The present physical health status of Jeanne Calment is not normal, it is very good, as indicated by all standard clinical parameters.
	entomology.ucdavis.edu /courses/hde19/lecture3.html (6593 words)

	How Long Can People Live? Muse - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She was born before Edison invented the light bulb and lived to the ripe old age of 122.
		Calment died in 1997, and since then no one has broken her record.
		Then Jeanne Calment thumbed her nose at that stop sign.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4136/is_200402/ai_n9391352 (696 words)

	HOW TO LIVE TO BE 120 -- Monday, Mar. 06, 1995 -- Page 1 -- TIME
		Jeanne Calment of Arles, France, reached that advanced age back in 1954, when Eisenhower was in the White House and Stalin had just passed from the scene.
		Twenty-two years later, at age 100, Calment was still riding her bicycle around town, having outlived both her only child and grandchild.
		Calment, says Harvard geriatrician Dr. Thomas Perls, "is the Michael Jordan of aging," genetically blessed with extraordinary physical gifts that favor survival.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,982631,00.html (829 words)

	BBC - Health - Health over 50 - Facts about ageing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Madame Jeanne Calment, from Arles in France, had the most reliable claim to be the longest lived individual in the world.
		She was born on 21 February 1875 and died 4 August 1997 at the age of 122.
		Madame Jeanne Calment took up fencing at 85, still rode a bicycle at 100, and released a rap CD at 121.
	www.bbc.co.uk /health/health_over_50/gettingolder_facts.shtml (753 words)

	Up the Aged! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jeanne Calment of the Southern French town of Arles, who was born in 1875 and lived 122 years, 5 months and 2 weeks.
		Among other inhabitants of Arles, she could clearly remember a certain Monsieur Vincent van Gogh who was a dab hand with the paint brushes but "stank", to say nothing of the trouble with one of his ears.
		Calment was certainly not ‘fazed’ by the changing fashions of the world.
	www.hullp.demon.co.uk /SacredHeart/thought/August310th97aged.htm (477 words)

	Data resources for long-lived persons and their families
		Robine and Allard [149] have studied the familial aggregation of longevity among the relatives of the longest-lived woman Jeanne Calment, who died in Arles, France on August 4, 1997, at the age of 122 years and 164 days.
		For the purpose of their study they have identified 62 immediate ancestors of Jeanne Calment corresponding to 5 generations (two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, 16 great-great-grandparents, and 32 great-great-great-grandparents).
		On the other hand, the parents of Jeanne Calment had lost two children in infancy before she was born, while her brother died at age of 97 [149].
	www.demographic-research.org /Volumes/Vol1/4/html/4.htm (2791 words)

	Jeanne CALMENT : Biographie de Jeanne CALMENT - JeSuisMort.com
		Jeanne Calment est une Française, née le 21 février 1875 à; Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) et morte le 4 août 1997 à; Arles, ville où elle aura passé l'intégralité de sa longue vie.
		Jeanne Calment épousa, en 1896, son cousin issu de germain Fernand Calment.
		Selon certaines sources, Jeanne Calment aurait rapporté, au crépuscule de sa vie, avoir eu l'occasion d'une danse en compagnie du peintre Vincent Van Gogh, durant le court séjour de celui-ci à Arles en 1888-1889.
	www.jesuismort.com /biographie_celebrite_chercher/biographie-jeanne_calment-1413.php? (475 words)

	Validation of Exceptional Longevity - Jeanne Calment: Validation of the Duration of Her Life
		Validation of Exceptional Longevity - Jeanne Calment: Validation of the Duration of Her Life
		Jeanne Calment: Validation of the Duration of Her Life
		Ritchie, K. (1995) Mental status examination of an exceptional case of longevity: Jeanne Calment, aged 118 years.
	www.demogr.mpg.de /books/odense/6/09r.htm (149 words)

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