“We have been following Sister André since she was 100 years old”: how supercentenarians are counted

Sister André was in the sights of Laurent Toussaint.

For months, with another handful of enthusiasts, this longevity expert has been tracing the long thread of the life of this nun, born Lucile Randon in 1904, and new dean of humanity, at 118 years old.

"We knew that the previous dean Kane Tanaka, who was 119, was sick, so Guinness contacted us to set up the record validation file," says Laurent Toussaint.

This computer scientist by training is one of the amateur “trackers” of supercentenarians.

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