# List of French supercentenarians

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 Georges Thomas (1911–2024), who lived for 112 years and 195 days.
As of 18 March 2025, the oldest known living French person is Marie-Rose Tessier, born 21 May 1910 and aged 114 years, 301 days.

## 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 | 122 years, 164 days | Bouches-du-Rhône | Bouches-du-Rhône |
| 02 | Lucile Randon, aka Sœur André | F | 11 February 1904 | 17 January 2023 | 118 years, 340 days | Gard | Var |
| 03 | Jeanne Bot | F | 14 January 1905 | 22 May 2021 | 116 years, 128 days | Pyrénées-Orientales | Pyrénées-Orientales |
| 04 | Valentine Ligny (née Bonel) | F | 22 October 1906 | 4 January 2022 | 115 years, 74 days | Pas-de-Calais | Somme |
| 05 | Marie Brémont (née Mésange) | F | 25 April 1886 | 6 June 2001 | 115 years, 42 days | Maine-et-Loire | Maine-et-Loire |
| 06 | Marie-Rose Tessier | F | 21 May 1910 | Living | 114 years, 301 days | Vendée | Vendée |
| 07 | Eudoxie Baboul | F | 1 October 1901 | 1 July 2016 | 114 years, 274 days | French Guiana | French Guiana |
| 08 | Eugénie Blanchard, aka Sœur Cyria Costa | F | 16 February 1896 | 4 November 2010 | 114 years, 261 days | Saint Barthélemy | Saint Barthélemy |
| 09 | Lydie Vellard (née Noémie Hudebine) | F | 18 March 1875 | 17 September 1989 | 114 years, 183 days | Loiret | Loiret |
| 10 | Gabrielle Valentine des Robert | F | 4 June 1904 | 3 December 2018 | 114 years, 182 days | Meuse | Loire-Atlantique |
| 11 | Camille Loiseau | F | 13 February 1892 | 12 August 2006 | 114 years, 180 days | Paris | Val-de-Marne |
| 12 | Anne Primout (née Dupont) | F | 5 October 1890 | 26 March 2005 | 114 years, 172 days | French Algeria | Pyrénées-Orientales |
| 13 | Honorine Rondello (née Cadoret) | F | 28 July 1903 | 19 October 2017 | 114 years, 83 days | Côtes-du-Nord | Var |
| 14 | Andrée Bertoletto | F | 1 January 1911 | Living | 114 years, 76 days | Mayenne | Mayenne |
| 15 | Marie-Louise Taterode | F | 17 July 1906 | 3 September 2020 | 114 years, 48 days | Corrèze | Puy-de-Dôme |
| 16 | Marie Liguinen (née Brudieux) | F | 26 March 1901 | 2 April 2015 | 114 years, 7 days | Corrèze | Essonne |
| 17 | Marie-Thérèse Bardet (née Jegat) | F | 2 June 1898 | 8 June 2012 | 114 years, 6 days | Morbihan | Loire-Atlantique |
| 18 | Olympe Amaury | F | 19 June 1901 | 12 May 2015 | 113 years, 327 days | Nièvre | Loiret |
| 19 | Luce Maced | F | 2 May 1886 | 25 February 2000 | 113 years, 299 days | Guadeloupe | Martinique |
| 20 | Marcelle Narbonne | F | 25 March 1898 | 1 January 2012 | 113 years, 282 days | French Algeria | Pyrénées-Orientales |
| 21 | Clémentine Solignac | F | 7 September 1894 | 25 May 2008 | 113 years, 261 days | Haute-Loire | Haute-Loire |
| 22 | Huguette Masson | F | 27 June 1904 | 5 March 2018 | 113 years, 251 days | Sarthe | Sarthe |
| 23 | Marie-Isabelle Diaz | F | 22 February 1898 | 29 October 2011 | 113 years, 249 days | French Algeria | Réunion |
| 24 | Émilienne Bécarmin | F | 4 June 1911 | 15 January 2025 | 113 years, 225 days | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe |
| 25 | Elise Tavan | F | 16 April 1909 | 7 November 2022 | 113 years, 205 days | Drôme | Drôme |
| 26 | Jeanne Lara | F | 1 April 1906 | 16 October 2019 | 113 years, 198 days | Spain | Occitanie |
| 27 | Germaine Haye, aka Anne Moranget | F | 10 October 1888 | 18 April 2002 | 113 years, 190 days | Orne | Orne |
| 28 | Marie-Simone Capony | F | 14 March 1894 | 15 September 2007 | 113 years, 185 days | Loire | Alpes-Maritimes |
| 28 | Marie-Florentine Jousseaume | F | 17 June 1907 | 19 December 2020 | 113 years, 185 days | Vendée | Vendée |
| 30 | Marie-Louise Berthelot | F | 29 July 1907 | 16 January 2021 | 113 years, 171 days | Maine-et-Loire | Mayenne |
| 31 | Mathilde Aussant | F | 27 February 1898 | 23 July 2011 | 113 years, 146 days | Loire-Atlantique | Loir-et-Cher |
| 32 | Aline Blaïn | F | 10 August 1911 | 27 December 2024 | 113 years, 139 days | Drôme | Vaucluse |
| 33 | Madeleine Chat | F | 10 August 1907 | 14 December 2020 | 113 years, 126 days | Yonne | Yonne |
| 34 | Julie Montabord | F | 17 April 1906 | 18 July 2019 | 113 years, 92 days | Martinique | Martinique |
| 35 | Julia Sinédia-Cazour | F | 12 July 1892 | 6 October 2005 | 113 years, 86 days | Réunion | Réunion |
| 36 | Élisabeth Collot | F | 21 June 1903 | 4 September 2016 | 113 years, 75 days | Haute-Marne | Isère |
| 37 | Juliette Bildé | F | 30 September 1909 | 13 December 2022 | 113 years, 74 days | Gironde | Deux-Sèvres |
| 38 | Marthe Roch | F | 19 August 1907 | 21 September 2020 | 113 years, 33 days | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe |
| 39 | Iréna Martial | F | 28 June 1909 | 29 June 2022 | 113 years, 1 day | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe |
| 40 | Mathilde Lartigue | F | 24 March 1905 | 24 March 2018 | 113 years, 0 days | Hérault | Hérault |
| 41 | Pauline Chabanny | F | 20 August 1881 | 13 August 1994 | 112 years, 358 days | Loiret | Puy-de-Dôme |
| 42 | Thérèse Ladigue | F | 15 February 1903 | 5 February 2016 | 112 years, 355 days | Rhône | Rhône |
| 43 | Jeanne Dumaine | F | 19 March 1886 | 3 January 1999 | 112 years, 290 days | Paris | Essonne |
| 44 | Jérômine Guiltat | F | 26 June 1911 | 7 April 2024 | 112 years, 286 days | Corsica | Corsica |
| 45 | Marie Mornet | F | 4 April 1894 | 5 January 2007 | 112 years, 276 days | Vienne | Vienne |
| 46 | Henriette Bœuf | F | 4 November 1903 | 23 July 2016 | 112 years, 262 days | Marne | Marne |
| 47 | Joséphine Choquet | F | 6 June 1878 | 14 February 1991 | 112 years, 253 days | Côtes-du-Nord | Somme |
| 48 | Madeleine Dellamonica | F | 23 July 1912 | Living | 112 years, 238 days | Paris | Yvelines |
| 49 | Lucie Péré-Pucheu | F | 13 August 1893 | 6 April 2006 | 112 years, 236 days | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | Pyrénées-Atlantiques |
| 50 | Marie-Thérèse Poulain | F | 25 November 1911 | 16 July 2024 | 112 years, 234 days | Hauts-de-France | Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes |
| 51 | Gabrielle Ormand | F | 24 February 1909 | 8 October 2021 | 112 years, 226 days | Sarthe | Essonne |
| 52 | Mélanie Leblais | F | 4 September 1903 | 3 April 2016 | 112 years, 212 days | Loire-Atlantique | Sarthe |
| 53 | Irénise Moulonguet | F | 6 November 1900 | 28 May 2013 | 112 years, 203 days | Martinique | Martinique |
| 54 | Jeanne Chabbert | F | 1 August 1909 | 12 February 2022 | 112 years, 195 days | Occitanie | Occitanie |
| 54 | Georges Thomas | M | 19 November 1911 | 1 June 2024 | 112 years, 195 days | Vienne | Charente-Maritime |
| 56 | Ilse Weiszfeld | F | 16 October 1904 | 22 April 2017 | 112 years, 188 days | Austria | Paris |
| 57 | Marie-Louise L'Huillier | F | 26 June 1895 | 28 December 2007 | 112 years, 185 days | New Caledonia | New Caledonia |
| 58 | Suzanne Décélis | F | 13 July 1909 | 6 January 2022 | 112 years, 177 days | French Algeria | Ile-de-France |
| 59 | Andrée Guyon | F | 6 June 1911 | 25 November 2023 | 112 years, 172 days | Indre | Eure-et-Loir |
| 60 | Marguerite Petit | F | 3 July 1883 | 21 December 1995 | 112 years, 171 days | Lorraine | Moselle |
| 60 | Jules Théobald | M | 17 April 1909 | 5 October 2021 | 112 years, 171 days | Martinique | Martinique |
| 62 | Anna Roux | F | 13 July 1895 | 25 December 2007 | 112 years, 165 days | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| 63 | Marcel Meys | M | 12 July 1909 | 15 December 2021 | 112 years, 156 days | Isère | Isère |
| 64 | Marie-Louise André | F | 16 October 1912 | Living | 112 years, 153 days | Upper Alps | Upper Alps |
| 65 | Marguerite Larmignat | F | 9 February 1911 | 11 July 2023 | 112 years, 152 days | Indre | Puy-de-Dôme |
| 66 | Eugénie Roux | F | 24 January 1874 | 20 June 1986 | 112 years, 147 days | Franche-Comté | Rhône-Alpes |
| 67 | Yvonne Bory | F | 14 March 1891 | 7 August 2003 | 112 years, 146 days | Gironde | Eure-et-Loir |
| 68 | Marie-Louise Delefortrie | F | 18 May 1908 | 29 September 2020 | 112 years, 134 days | Nord | Nord |
| 69 | Jeanne Colas | F | 9 June 1886 | 15 October 1998 | 112 years, 128 days | Ardennes | Côte-d'Or |
| 70 | Suzanne Burrier | F | 14 March 1901 | 14 July 2013 | 112 years, 122 days | Allier | Allier |
| 70 | Marie-Antoinette Radix | F | 7 December 1904 | 8 April 2017 | 112 years, 122 days | Rhône | Rhône |
| 72 | Georgette Huard | F | 24 November 1912 | Living | 112 years, 114 days | Seine-Maritime | Orne |
| 73 | Agnès Fagoo | F | 19 December 1894 | 12 April 2007 | 112 years, 114 days | Nord | Nord |
| 74 | Constance Cariou | F | 8 May 1895 | 29 August 2007 | 112 years, 113 days | Loire-Inférieure | Alpes-Maritimes |
| 75 | Mathilde Dupray | F | 31 October 1903 | 18 February 2016 | 112 years, 110 days | Seine-Inférieure | Côtes-d'Armor |
| 76 | Henriette Roques | F | 8 September 1905 | 20 December 2017 | 112 years, 103 days | Hérault | Hérault |
| 77 | Marguerite Bailly | F | 6 March 1907 | 12 June 2019 | 112 years, 98 days | Aisne | Vosges |
| 78 | Estelle Zimmermann | F | 18 September 1912 | 19 December 2024 | 112 years, 92 days | Mayenne | Gard |
| 79 | Célestine Colombeau | F | 17 February 1884 | 9 May 1996 | 112 years, 82 days | Maine-et-Loire | Maine-et-Loire |
| 80 | Marie-Louise Jeancard | F | 5 September 1876 | 25 November 1988 | 112 years, 81 days | Alpes-Maritimes | Alpes-Maritimes |
| 81 | Elisabeth Frénoy | F | 7 February 1907 | 20 April 2019 | 112 years, 72 days | Marne | Marne |
| 82 | Augustine Tessier, aka Sister Julia | F | 2 January 1869 | 8 March 1981 | 112 years, 65 days | Occitanie | Languedoc-Roussillon |
| 82 | Anne-Marie Masse | F | 21 July 1907 | 24 September 2019 | 112 years, 65 days | (unknown) | Centre-Val de Loire |
| 84 | Paule Bronzini | F | 7 July 1900 | 29 August 2012 | 112 years, 53 days | Bouches-du-Rhône | Vaucluse |
| 85 | Mathilde Octavie Tafna | F | 16 March 1895 | 1 May 2007 | 112 years, 46 days | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe |
| 86 | Augusta Oteiza | F | 3 May 1912 | 10 June 2024 | 112 years, 38 days | Landes | Landes |
| 87 | Eugénie Dauzat | F | 6 December 1900 | 12 January 2013 | 112 years, 37 days | Puy-de-Dôme | Puy-de-Dôme |
| 88 | Madeleine Désert | F | 15 May 1907 | 15 June 2019 | 112 years, 31 days | Pays de la Loire | Ile-de-France |
| 88 | Jeanne Deletang | F | 27 October 1909 | 27 November 2021 | 112 years, 31 days | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| 90 | Olympe Pidancet | F | 24 January 1897 | 19 February 2009 | 112 years, 26 days | Yonne | Rhône |
| 91 | Yvonne Francier | F | 28 February 1913 | Living | 112 years, 18 days | Belgium | Corsica |
| 92 | Irène Corlet | F | 4 February 1893 | 17 February 2005 | 112 years, 13 days | Martinique | Martinique |
| 93 | Fanny Bruel | F | 18 March 1893 | 29 March 2005 | 112 years, 11 days | Cantal | Paris |
| 94 | Fernande Charpentier | F | 7 November 1895 | 17 November 2007 | 112 years, 10 days | Ile-de-France | Ile-de-France |
| 95 | Marcelle Demorgny | F | 10 March 1913 | Living | 112 years, 8 days | Charente | Charente |
| 96 | Blanche Marie Grosdidier | F | 3 October 1889 | 10 October 2001 | 112 years, 7 days | Meuse | Oise |
| 96 | Isabelle Boizeau | F | 18 November 1905 | 25 November 2017 | 112 years, 7 days | Yonne | Loiret |
| 96 | Jeanne Bonnot | F | 18 October 1907 | 25 October 2019 | 112 years, 7 days | Doubs | Doubs |
| 96 | Berthe Budet | F | 3 October 1909 | 10 October 2021 | 112 years, 7 days | Spain | Gard |
| 100 | Marie-Hélène Chanteperdrix | F | 5 March 1886 | 9 March 1998 | 112 years, 4 days | Nord | Seine-Saint-Denis |

## Biographies
### 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-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.

### André Ludwig

André Ludwig (6 June 1912 – 7 January 2024) was, at the time of his death, the oldest World War II veteran in the world. He was born in La Ferte-sous-Jouarre and never knew his parents, being raised by his grandmother. He trained as a painter and later worked as a fitter. He married Yvonne Ludwig in 1935 and they had one daughter. In 1939, Ludwig was mobilised to fight in the Second World War, but was captured by German forces in Épinal and deported to Poland. He escaped in 1942, was caught again, and was later sent to a labour camp in Germany, from which he also escaped. He served in the French resistance during the last stages of the war. Ludwig later worked as a middle manager and retired in 1972, moving to Longue-Jumelles, where he would spend the rest of his life. His wife died when he was 100. Shortly before his 109th birthday, he fractured a femur and underwent an operation; he had previously been in good health.