The oldest person in history was this French woman who lived to 122. Did you know?
The oldest person in history whose age was verified was none other than Jeanne Calment, a French woman who lived to 122 (and a half) years of age.
Living between 1875 and 1997, she was already 37 when the Titanic sank; 39 when the First World War began and 70 when France was liberated from the Austrian Painter in 1945. She witnessed the transformation of transport, the rise and fall of empires, the birth of video games and the complete transformation of the world as she knew it.
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