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 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 113 years, 233 days as of 9 January 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	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	Eudoxie Baboul	F	1 October 1901	1 July 2016	114 years, 274 days	French Guiana	French Guiana
07	Eugénie Blanchard, aka Sœur Cyria Costa	F	16 February 1896	4 November 2010	114 years, 261 days	Saint Barthélemy	Saint Barthélemy
08	Lydie Vellard (née Noémie Hudebine)	F	18 March 1875	17 September 1989	114 years, 183 days	Loiret	Loiret
09	Gabrielle Valentine des Robert	F	4 June 1904	3 December 2018	114 years, 182 days	Meuse	Loire-Atlantique
10	Camille Loiseau	F	13 February 1892	12 August 2006	114 years, 180 days	Paris	Val-de-Marne
11	Anne Primout	F	5 October 1890	26 March 2005	114 years, 172 days	French Algeria	Pyrénées-Orientales
12	Honorine Rondello	F	28 July 1903	19 October 2017	114 years, 83 days	Côtes-du-Nord	Var
13	Marie-Louise Taterode	F	17 July 1906	3 September 2020	114 years, 48 days	Corrèze	Puy-de-Dôme
14	Marie Liguinen	F	26 March 1901	2 April 2015	114 years, 7 days	Corrèze	Essonne
15	Marie-Thérèse Bardet	F	2 June 1898	8 June 2012	114 years, 6 days	Morbihan	Loire-Atlantique
16	Olympe Amaury	F	19 June 1901	12 May 2015	113 years, 327 days	Nièvre	Loiret
17	Luce Maced	F	2 May 1886	25 February 2000	113 years, 299 days	Guadeloupe	Martinique
18	Marcelle Narbonne	F	25 March 1898	1 January 2012	113 years, 282 days	French Algeria	Pyrénées-Orientales
19	Clémentine Solignac	F	7 September 1894	25 May 2008	113 years, 261 days	Haute-Loire	Haute-Loire
20	Huguette Masson	F	27 June 1904	5 March 2018	113 years, 251 days	Sarthe	Sarthe
21	Marie-Isabelle Diaz	F	22 February 1898	29 October 2011	113 years, 249 days	French Algeria	Réunion
22	Marie-Rose Tessier	F	21 May 1910	Living	113 years, 233 days	Vendée	Vendée
23	Elise Tavan	F	16 April 1909	7 November 2022	113 years, 205 days	Drôme	Drôme
24	Germaine Haye, aka Anne Moranget	F	10 October 1888	18 April 2002	113 years, 190 days	Orne	Orne
25	Marie-Simone Capony	F	14 March 1894	15 September 2007	113 years, 185 days	Loire	Alpes-Maritimes
	Marie-Florentine Jousseaume	F	17 June 1907	19 December 2020		Vendée	Vendée
27	Marie-Louise Berthelot	F	29 July 1907	16 January 2021	113 years, 171 days	Maine-et-Loire	Mayenne
28	Mathilde Aussant	F	27 February 1898	23 July 2011	113 years, 146 days	Loire-Atlantique	Loir-et-Cher
29	Madeleine Chat	F	10 August 1907	14 December 2020	113 years, 126 days	Yonne	Yonne
30	Julie Montabord	F	17 April 1906	18 July 2019	113 years, 92 days	Martinique	Martinique
31	Julia Sinédia-Cazour	F	12 July 1892	6 October 2005	113 years, 86 days	Réunion	Réunion
32	Élisabeth Collot	F	21 June 1903	4 September 2016	113 years, 75 days	Haute-Marne	Isère
33	Juliette Bildé	F	30 September 1909	13 December 2022	113 years, 74 days	Gironde	Deux-Sèvres
34	Marthe Roch	F	19 August 1907	21 September 2020	113 years, 33 days	Guadeloupe	Guadeloupe
35	Andrée Bertoletto	F	1 January 1911	Living	113 years, 8 days	Mayenne	Mayenne
36	Iréna Martial	F	28 June 1909	29 June 2022	113 years, 1 day	Guadeloupe	Guadeloupe
37	Mathilde Lartigue	F	24 March 1905	24 March 2018	113 years, 0 days	Hérault	Hérault
38	Pauline Chabanny	F	20 August 1881	13 August 1994	112 years, 358 days	Loiret	Puy-de-Dôme
39	Thérèse Ladigue	F	15 February 1903	5 February 2016	112 years, 355 days	Rhône	Rhône
40	Jeanne Dumaine	F	19 March 1886	3 January 1999	112 years, 290 days	Paris	Essonne
41	Marie Mornet	F	4 April 1894	5 January 2007	112 years, 276 days	Vienne	Vienne
42	Henriette Bœuf	F	4 November 1903	23 July 2016	112 years, 262 days	Marne	Marne
43	Joséphine Choquet	F	6 June 1878	14 February 1991	112 years, 253 days	Côtes-du-Nord	Somme
44	Lucie Péré-Pucheu	F	13 August 1893	6 April 2006	112 years, 236 days	Pyrénées-Atlantiques	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
45	Gabrielle Ormand	F	24 February 1909	8 October 2021	112 years, 226 days	Sarthe	Essonne
46	Émilienne Bécarmin	F	4 June 1911	Living	112 years, 219 days	Guadeloupe	Guadeloupe
47	Mélanie Leblais	F	4 September 1903	3 April 2016	112 years, 212 days	Loire-Atlantique	Sarthe
48	Irénise Moulonguet	F	6 November 1900	28 May 2013	112 years, 203 days	Martinique	Martinique
49	Ilse Weiszfeld	F	16 October 1904	22 April 2017	112 years, 188 days	Austria	Paris
50	Marie-Louise L'Huillier	F	26 June 1895	28 December 2007	112 years, 185 days	New Caledonia	New Caledonia
51	Andrée Guyon	F	6 June 1911	25 November 2023	112 years, 172 days	Indre	Eure-et-Loir
52	Marguerite Petit	F	3 July 1883	21 December 1995	112 years, 171 days	Lorraine	Moselle
	Jules Théobald	M	17 April 1909	5 October 2021		Martinique	Martinique
54	Marcel Meys	M	12 July 1909	15 December 2021	112 years, 156 days	Isère	Isère
55	Marguerite Larmignat	F	9 February 1911	11 July 2023	112 years, 152 days	Indre	Puy-de-Dôme
56	Eugénie Roux	F	24 January 1874	20 June 1986	112 years, 147 days	Franche-Comté	Rhône-Alpes
57	Yvonne Bory	F	14 March 1891	7 August 2003	112 years, 146 days	Gironde	Eure-et-Loir
58	Marie-Louise Delefortrie	F	18 May 1908	29 September 2020	112 years, 134 days	Nord	Nord
59	Jeanne Colas	F	9 June 1886	15 October 1998	112 years, 128 days	Ardennes	Côte-d'Or
60	Suzanne Burrier	F	14 March 1901	14 July 2013	112 years, 122 days	Allier	Allier
	Marie-Antoinette Radix	F	7 December 1904	8 April 2017		Rhône	Rhône
62	Agnès Fagoo	F	19 December 1894	12 April 2007	112 years, 114 days	Nord	Nord
63	Constance Cariou	F	8 May 1895	29 August 2007	112 years, 113 days	Loire-Inférieure	Alpes-Maritimes
64	Mathilde Dupray	F	31 October 1903	18 February 2016	112 years, 110 days	Seine-Inférieure	Côtes-d'Armor
65	Henriette Roques	F	8 September 1905	20 December 2017	112 years, 103 days	Hérault	Hérault
66	Marguerite Bailly	F	6 March 1907	12 June 2019	112 years, 98 days	Aisne	Vosges
67	Célestine Colombeau	F	17 February 1884	9 May 1996	112 years, 82 days	Maine-et-Loire	Maine-et-Loire
68	Marie-Louise Jeancard	F	5 September 1876	25 November 1988	112 years, 81 days	Alpes-Maritimes	Alpes-Maritimes
69	Elisabeth Frénoy	F	7 February 1907	20 April 2019	112 years, 72 days	Marne	Marne
70	Augustine Tessier, aka Sister Julia	F	2 January 1869	8 March 1981	112 years, 65 days	(unknown)	Languedoc-Roussillon
71	Paule Bronzini	F	7 July 1900	29 August 2012	112 years, 53 days	Bouches-du-Rhône	Vaucluse
72	Mathilde Octavie Tafna	F	16 March 1895	1 May 2007	112 years, 46 days	Guadeloupe	Guadeloupe
73	Eugénie Dauzat	F	6 December 1900	12 January 2013	112 years, 37 days	Puy-de-Dôme	Puy-de-Dôme
74	Olympe Pidancet	F	24 January 1897	19 February 2009	112 years, 26 days	Yonne	Rhône
75	Fanny Bruel	F	18 March 1893	29 March 2005	112 years, 11 days	Cantal	Paris
76	Blanche Marie Grosdidier	F	3 October 1889	10 October 2001	112 years, 7 days	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
80	Marie-Hélène Chanteperdrix	F	5 March 1886	9 March 1998	112 years, 4 days	Nord	Seine-Saint-Denis
81	Louise Fleury	F	8 March 1888	9 March 2000	112 years, 1 day	Paris	Oise
82	Clotilde Roy	F	23 October 1889	13 October 2001	111 years, 355 days	Paris	Paris
83	Madeleine Mièze	F	28 April 1901	14 April 2013	111 years, 351 days	Pas-de-Calais	Nord
84	Marie Combéléran	F	8 June 1889	23 May 2001	111 years, 349 days	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
87	Jeanne Bournat	F	22 January 1903	20 December 2014	111 years, 332 days	Puy-de-Dôme	Puy-de-Dôme
88	Jeannette Gayraud	F	12 May 1892	31 March 2004	111 years, 324 days	Bouches-du-Rhône	Var
89	Zoé Vérot	F	15 February 1884	4 January 1996	111 years, 323 days	Yonne	Yonne
90	Germaine Stadler	F	29 March 1893	14 February 2005	111 years, 322 days	Pas-de-Calais	Seine-Maritime
91	Maurice Floquet	M	25 December 1894	10 November 2006	111 years, 320 days	Haute-Marne	Var
92	Maria Richard	F	28 November 1900	11 October 2012	111 years, 318 days	Belgium	Hérault
93	Marguerite Conrad	F	15 March 1902	26 January 2014	111 years, 317 days	Paris	Hauts-de-Seine
94	Amelina Debert (née Vandewalle)	F	19 July 1908	27 May 2020	111 years, 313 days	Pas-de-Calais	Oise
	Odile de Plunkett (née Dubois)	F	7 January 1909	15 November 2020		Paris	Loiret
96	Maria Zaccaria (née Nicastro)	F	24 November 1905	2 October 2017	111 years, 312 days	Sicily, Italy	Hérault
97	Andrée Roy (née Puzenat)	F	23 February 1906	26 December 2017	111 years, 306 days	Vosges	Hauts-de-Seine
98	Maryse Lancioni	F	8 November 1907	9 September 2019	111 years, 305 days	Corsica	Alpes-Maritimes
99	Anne-Marie Papail (née Gautrais)	F	14 June 1909	11 April 2021	111 years, 301 days	Ille-et-Vilaine	Ille-et-Vilaine
100	Marcelle Adda (née Samuel dit Albert)	F	3 June 1905	22 March 2017	111 years, 292 days	Paris	Yvelines

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-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.