After the death at 118 of the doyenne of humanity sister André, a Frenchwoman, who is the oldest person in France?
The probable new dean of the French is a 112-year-old Vendée, estimates Laurent Toussaint, specialist in extreme longevity in France.
Her name is Marie-Rose Tessier, born Bousseau on May 21, 1910, according to this expert who participates in the international database on longevity IDL (International Database on Longevity), in conjunction with the French Institute for Demographic Studies.
She lives in an accommodation establishment for dependent elderly people in Les Sables-d'Olonne, reports the local press.
We must nevertheless be "very careful", insisted Laurent Toussaint because it is possible that an even older person is not known or has not yet made himself known.
“A few doubts”
"I have some doubts because 112 years is not a lot compared to the last accessions to deanery in recent years which were at 113 years old", insisted the specialist knowing that no official body attributes these titles. of dean or dean.
"I have rarely been sick," she confided to photographer Jean-Marie Poirier a few months ago.
I don't have any diets or medications, just a little pill sometimes to sleep.
Every day, I drink my little glass of wine.
On Sundays, I had an aperitif, a little Suze, but I stopped a few years ago.
No, there is no miracle recipe, or else I don't know it”.
The French sister André, who since April 2022 was the dean of known humanity, died in her sleep on the night of Monday to Tuesday, her spokesperson announced.
She lived in a retirement home in Toulon, in the south of France.
She is, according to Laurent Toussaint, the fourth person to have lived the longest in the history of humanity, behind a Japanese and an American and especially behind the French Jeanne Calment, who died at 122 in Arles in 1997, who remains the longest-lived person in human history whose marital status has been verified.