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The recognition section is too crowded with photos, half of it is bare. One of the photos needs to be moved or deleted. Fearstreetsaga (talk) 16:39, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone add a better photo than the one we currently have? Also, with Jeanne being the oldest verified human ever, wouldn't it be a good idea to show her at various life stages (i.e., age 20, 40, 112, etc) → R Young {^yakł_talk} 19:40, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I second this request. -- itistoday (Talk) 04:04, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I can't find any copyright/licensing information on these photos, so I'm not going to add any of them to Wikipedia, but http://www.grg.org/JCalmentGallery.htm has several photos, ranging from 20 years old to 122. — MSchmahl… 01:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if it would be OK to take one of those images, and claim it as public domain? We've just lost the image, so we need a replacement one. -- how do you turn this on 03:41, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if you can do that, but I agree that we need a new image. Neptune5000 (talk) 04:51, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder, is "I have been forgotten by a good God" a mistranslation of le bon Dieu, which just means "God" in French? — Miguel 22:47, 2004 Mar 7 (UTC)

You are correct, the full quote is "J'ai été oubliée par le Bon Dieu." -- VV 23:18, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

For those who don't think "good God" makes sense, they don't know Jeanne Calment. She was a joker; she was joking that God had forgotten to come get her, so she had more time here on this earth (mischievous).

It's "I have been forgotten by the Good God" migo 19:50, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First, the original translation came directly from the Jeanne Calment book by Jean-Marie Robine. It was written by French people, I would suppose they knew what they were saying. For you to presume to know more than the people who were with Jeanne Calment for 7+ years is the height of presumption. Also, calling a difference of opinion 'vandalism' smacks of personal attack.→ R Young {^yakł_talk} 01:53, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Still, "le Bon Dieu" is a regular expression, used as "God", as in "Il faut prier au Bon Dieu".

"un Bon Dieu" would translate to "A good God", whereas "le Bon Dieu" is "(the Good) God", as migo stated.-- megA 21:23, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In English we say the Good Lord rather than the good God. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.142.69.184 (talk • contribs)

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I can see what is meant by "reliably reported", but the claim of the oldest person in the world sounds a little to confident, since no one knows for sure in a world of billions of people. --65.73.0.137

Well, damn, she was 122. I think it's safe to say. Mike H 19:01, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

I like "confirmed" better than "reliably reported." "Reported" indicates second-hand "reports"--that is, we're believing something because someone reliable "vouched" for it. But that is not the case here. The documents for Jeanne Calment have been clearly listed and are available to researchers.

Also, considering that we have the "world's oldest person" currently at 114 years old, age 122 is in fact a very tough record to break--when we're talking about real people, not false and exaggerated claims which never can be proven and often falter under scrutiny. This is not to say that an age above 122 has "never" occurred but Jeanne Calment is the bar, the standard. Like a unified heavyweight crown, virtually all scientific and popular (i.e. Guinness Book) sources agree, something that can't be said for the "oldest man ever" Shigechiyo Izumi.

Statistics show that only 5% of people who celebrate their 90th birthday reach age 100. Of those who reach 100, only 1 in 1000 will reach 110. And of those who reach 110, only 1 in 5000 are expected to reach age 120. So we can say that even a person on their 100th birthday, given the present mortality rates in the most advanced countries, can expect a 1 in 5 million chance to live to age 120. And Jeanne Calment was 122. Ironically, she may have been a genetic mutant, resulting from the inbreeding of the Calment family line--a line which died out with her.

Well, no one knows anything for sure, do they? Did the Wright brothers really invent the airplane? No. Did Columbus really discover America? No.

As for Jeanne Calment, I don't think you realize that it's "pretty damn certain." Consider that only 5% of 90-year-olds reach age 100; only 0.10% of 100-year-olds reach 110. Of those who reach 110, it is expected that 1 in 5,000 will reach 120. And yet Jeanne Calment was 122, and the best-proven case of all time.

So, we have her more than 3 years ahead of any other case, with the best proof, and the chances of it happening again for year very slim any time soon (1 in 10 billion, some estimate, which is greater than the world population currently).

Ok, so if we have a 114-year-old world's oldest person, we're not really sure, and we can never be 100% sure about "all-time" either, but why apply standards higher than those applied to other data?

I don't think anyone is disputing the claim that she lived to 122, but rather, that someone else has lived past the age of 122. I've heard of reports of people in africa who have lived past 140 but don't have papers to prove it since no one in Africa made birth certificates 140 years ago, and while I sincerely doubt the truth of these anecdotes, it is entirely possible that someone has lived past 122 and it is simply undocumented.

Well, until a such case is documented, Jeanne Calment will still hold the title as World's Oldest Ever Person. -- Super Sam 02:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

All this is essentially worthless semantic debate and would be OR if included. That's never stopped me before. It is safe to say that the oldest living person now is probably the oldest living person ever (unless you are a Biblical literalist, ). The average life-span in an industrialized nation now is somewhat higher than double that of "natural" lifestyles (pre-modern, let's say 16th century and previous, perhaps earlier). That means that the chances of someone around 1000 AD living to 90 would be similar to the chances of someone today living to 120 (again, shooting from the hip). By that token, the chances of someone living to 122 then would be exponentially tiny--like really, astronomically tiny. Like "a thousand times the number of people who have ever lived on the planet... to one" tiny. By that same line of reasoning, the chances are excellent that anyone living in a region that would not have birth certificates, a census, and so on, is also going to be living in a region where the average life-span isn't much better than it was a thousand years ago (40-60, at most). Ever seen a picture of the wizened, weathered aboriginal man? He might be younger than you (even as you're still paying off student loans). So even though the majority of the world's population might live out of sight from Guinness and such, environmental and lifestyle factors are going to weigh heavily against their living to 90 or 100, much less 122. Really heavily. Fearwig 17:34, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, even in the "Dark Ages" there were pretty well documented people over 100. Though I know no such early case of a person 110+, but the fact there were centenarians suggest longevity was always present. The AVERAGE age grows, but the longest possible lifespan remains always about the same - even in the stone age people could live up to 70-80 if not eaten by animals or died of some disease. around 70 seems to be human's natural lifespan, reachable even without modern progress. So it is entirely possible someone back then reached 110+, just the probability is much less then to reach 110+ today (because of the lower average lifespan earlier).--77.132.164.120 23:44, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above reasoning is convincing: "The AVERAGE age grows, but the longest possible lifespan remains always about the same." The chances are that someone has lived longer than these ages but the certainty is that it is not going to have been documented in a way that the books of records would accept. Buyo (talk) 14:59, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What does 'en viager' mean? Is this the 'reverse mortgage' agreement described in the next sentence? This should be clarified - and perhaps a wikipedia page should be started that explains what this means.

http://www.sykesanderson.com/articles/french_en_viager.asp describes it well. someone who is more familiar about this should start a wikipedia page on it. (unsigned comment)

That link is dead. Linkskywalker 03:39, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An apartment "en viagier" is a deal between two persons. One of them (usually much younger) agrees to pay the equivalent of the rent of an apartment/house of someone who continues to live there. In return, the person agrees to give the apartment or house to the person who paid him/her at his/her death.

This is a common way for elderly people (usually with small retirement incomes) to get money and improve his/her living, and this until his/her death. Depending on how much time this takes, one or the other may profit more of the deal. Ironically, here, the older person, Jeanne Calment, died after the younger one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.130.68.37 (talk • contribs)

"Unlucky deal for Raffray" is rather casual wording for a dictionary. 138.243.228.52 01:52, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I removed it. --Jersey Devil 20:28, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please, note that these quotes have been removed due to lack of sourcing. In general, lists of quotes belong on Wikiquote unless they are placed within the context of the article. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 01:36, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, those quotes can be found in the sources listed in 'references.'→ R Young {^yakł_talk} 13:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've read in a newspaper that she died at her 121th birthday. (unsigned comment)

I've reverted this change that you made to the 'oldest people' article as it's totally unsourced and goes against all other known reliable reports.--HisSpaceResearch 10:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe I'm way off base with this...but I could SWEAR that I've seen this woman (judging from the pic) in a documentary about the Titanic, aboard which she was supposedly a passenger. As I recall the documentary even noted that it was "before her death in 1997." Can anybody verify this or am I way off? Linkskywalker 03:37, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, Titanic movie was made/released in 1997, the year she died. On her 122nd birthday, she had almost no public figure and was not allowed outside, as far as I know. Neal 14:58, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I remember, some pictures of her 122nd birthday got into TV. It was AFTER her 122nd birthday when she disappeared from the media.--77.132.164.120 23:47, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The French version says that she used to smoke until her death. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Krazykenny (talk • contribs) 00:27, 9 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Ouch: then we definitely have a problem. Extremely sexy 20:26, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the smoking bit entirely until a citation is added. --Android Mouse 01:14, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Huh. I think there was at least one report which says that she picked up smoking AGAIN at 118, but I've forgotten long ago. Brendanology (talk) 13:59, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article doesn't say what her exact cause of death was. Does anyone know? And could we get that added to the article? --Android Mouse 01:15, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well: she just died of old age in her sleep, "Android Mouse". Extremely sexy 19:09, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

One can't die of old age. One always dies of some disease, which has a high probability to occur at the old age, but never of age itself. So it's of interest WHICH disease killed her.--77.132.164.120 23:51, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

She died in her nursing home, rather than in a hospital, so, obviously, a doctor didn't give her an official death cause. We may never know what she died of, but she did smoke for 104 years and had a moderately weak heart. She died at 10:45 a.m. Neal 14:57, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks for the info. It was probably some form of heart failure then. --Android Mouse 20:51, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Or after a long bout of old age. Or is that no longer a medically recognized cause of death? --llywrch 20:06, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Death from old age is like death from AIDS or any secondary but nonetheless lethal and clear ultimate cause of death: the proximal cause, the thing that actually killed the person, is always something else. It does not for example appear in the list of causes of death by rate. In the case of AIDS the virus itself only affects a small population of cells whose functioning is not immediately necessary for life. A metastatic cancer on the other hand typically directly disrupts so much tissue that it can often be the direct cause of death. A heart failure, stroke or other immediate cause of death of a 122-year-old patient in 1997 would not have been thought to call for an autopsy and listing the cause as old age would generally everywhere be considered sufficient on the death certificate. Lycurgus 05:29, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

But why didn't one do an autopsy anyway though, just to be able to learn something from her 122 1/2 years old body: explain this? Extremely sexy 11:50, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would imagine because her relatives or her will forbade it. Lycurgus 07:46, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

But she definitely had no relatives anymore, and I don't think she wrote a will in my honest opinion. Extremely sexy 20:15, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That or the common decency of the authorities. A small DNA sample is all that would have been really required for science and I wouldn't be surprised if that was collected before she died. An autopsy to confirm the state of the internal organs of a 122 year old woman who smoked until she was 117 would not be without scientific value but there are other values too. Lycurgus 23:33, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

She probably died of natural causes. Peanut.pookie (talk) 19:40, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

According to TV show QI, Series 3 Episode 9, Stephen Fry said that she died aged 125. Who's right? Memassivbeast 18:14, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He's in fact definitely wrong: she honestly died at 122 1/2. Extremely sexy 20:24, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, Calment died at age 122 years and 5 months, meaning 122 2/5 :b --Leoj83 (talk) 00:57, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What was her maiden name? Although as she married her second cousin, that could've been Calment too. EamonnPKeane 12:04, 24 October 2007 (UTC) I think it was. Extremely sexy 19:06, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

She married her 1st cousin. It couldn't have been on her mother's side. It was on her father's side. And it was her father's brother's son (as a father's sister would have married into another last name). Her middle name is Louise though. And her mother's maiden name is Gilles. I also have her mother's mother's maiden name somehow lost in my memory right now.. I can look that up, but my server is down. Neal 17:10, 9 November 2007 (UTC).[reply]

I remember now. Her grandmather on mother's side is Rosa Minaud. Neal 20:35, 13 November 2007 (UTC).[reply]

At which hour did she was born and at which hour did she died? Anyone knows? Her daughter's son had his father's surname? Which were his surnames? Finally, whoever vandalized the talk page claiming there's a chance she managed to get that old thanks to "the inbreeding of the Calment family"... Learn to read better, her husband was her cousin QUITE removed, not exactly "in breeding"; But it says nothing about her parents sharing some blood relation, if ya want to learn to read better. Undead Herle King (talk) 20:48, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jeanne Calment was born around 7 a.m. and died on a 10:45 a.m., spanning 122 years 164 days ~45 minutes. Don't most children inherit their father's last name? Neal (talk) 21:31, 20 February 2008 (UTC).[reply]

I meant this Jeanne Calment had a daughter with Jeanne Calment's husband's surname yet the son of this duo had the surname of Jeanne Calment's father... Which doesn't sounds correct. Furthermore, the data you give adds like 3 hours to the total (talk) 05:22, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jeanne Calment's husband was a couson on her father's side, not mother's. Neal (talk) 18:06, 10 March 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Someone should create an article about Watfa Ghanem, a 128-year old Syrian woman, born in 1880. She has long passed the age of Jeanne Calment, who reached the longest confirmed lifespan at 122. 1 2 3. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.42.180.104 (talk) 19:32, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You speak as if her age is 128. Do you think this paragraphs:

Watfa Al Ghanem gestures as she speaks in her home in the village of Al Sheirat in the Syrian city of Homs on Friday, February 29. Al Ghanem, 128, who married once and has four children, said that she has farmed for more than 100 years. Al Ghanem also explained that her eye injury was caused by an accident with a tree branch.

Is worthy of its own Wikipedia article? Looks more like a stub to me. She could be in longevity myths if she isn't, especially if we know when in 1880 she claims to be born. Neal (talk) 18:05, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the smoking bit entirely until a citation is added. --Android Mouse 01:14, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is said that it was removed, but there is still the comment saying she smoked. I checked the source but it doesn't have any mention of her smoking.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Firesoul2x (talk • contribs)

Nonsense. There's plenty of evidence that Jeanne Calment smoked, even a photo. Here's an article in the NY Times:

Jeanne Calment, World's Elder, Dies at 122 - New York TimesJeanne Calment, born a year before Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone ... rode a bicycle until she was 100, and only quit smoking five years ago. ... query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E7D7113DF936A3575BC0A961958260 - 36k - Cached - Similar pages

Ryoung122 03:11, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings,

The current crusade to remove links to years of birth has been disenguous at best. False accusations that the only reason links were made was for some arcane computer reason don't hold water. The purpose of links on Wikipedia is to allow the user to quickly link to and find background information on a related field of interest.

Given that Calment's claim to fame is as the "Mistress of Time," it seems quite unreasonable to expect that no links to the year 1875, the year of her birth, be allowed. Note the current proposals are guidelines/suggestions, not rules.

Ryoung122 03:05, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

I seem to recall that on the day she became the world's oldest person she was interviewed and asked, in the light of her extensive experience of history, words to the effect: "And how do you see the future?" To which she most wittily replied "Very short..." It would be great if someone could track that down and add it... a highly functioning intellect at >120 is just as remarkable as the age itself.

Julian I Do Stuff (talk) 20:45, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what happened to it, but I'm fairly sure it used to be on here (along with the "I only have one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it"). I think there used to be a quotes section on here - possibly removed because it was trivia. SiameseTurtle (talk) 14:22, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's a circus of "She smoked till her death, she ate chocolate and wine". I mean, that reads like the fat bastard's guide to continue his terrible lifestyle. I suspect biased half-truth hiding part of the truth here. Unless she was a total joker. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AaThinker (talk • contribs) 14:18, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Old people say these sorts of things. Big winners at casinos are usually not the people who study the chances on the wheel. Buyo (talk) 14:57, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Whoever added the new photos recently, you rock! :D Where did you find them, anyway? Jeanne in a 1897 and in 1935 --RyanTee82 (talk) 07:13, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In the sources provided for the smoking bit, i only found that she 'quit smoking 5 years before her death', yet the page says she had been smoking for 100 years. How do they know she has been smoking all her life? 70.176.139.139 (talk) 03:26, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The claim appears in this article,[1] who should probably be included. DavidOaks (talk) 03:56, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbVnovXxPNk&feature=related Read the description. --Nick Ornstein (talk) 01:39, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You can't always trust YouTube descriptions, since the people who upload them usually have about as much of a clue of the true history of the video as the people watching them do, and therefore cannot be verified as reliable sources. I saw that very trailer on TCM, and the old lady in it says she's 75 and a half. Lust For Life was released in 1956, and since this video was documenting the making of the film, I'd say it couldn't have been earlier than '55 or '54. Which would have made Calment between the ages of 79-81. Not 75, as that woman talking to Kirk Douglas claimed she was. 24.189.90.68 (talk) 04:25, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It probably was authentic, it's been pulled so don't bother. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 16:21, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

From Biography section: "In 1965, aged 90 years and with no heirs", but later, "Calment had 216 direct descendants living at the time of her death". Am I obtuse, or is this inconsistent? The latter assertion is correctly footnoted from the book Living to 100 and Beyond. However, her only child and grandchild predeceased her. Although she may have had nieces and nephews, would they be considered direct descendants? 24.128.188.152 (talk) 23:01, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The claim seems dubious, even if the outward form of citation is there. I think it should be deleted, or at least, someone needs to go check the ref. DavidOaks (talk) 23:44, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The information regarding her meeting Vincent van Gough is mentioned in two different spots, once under the Biography section and then again under the Recognition section. These two spots say almost the same thing regarding her description of him "dirty, badly dressed, and disagreeable" yet also contradict each other at the same time - in the Biography section it says he was at her uncle's shop to buy paint and in the Recognition section it says he was there to buy canvas. I think one of these references should be taken out as well as the contradiction corrected. 69.41.192.218 (talk) 17:37, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Does Jeanne's age of 122 1/2 reflect evidence that the bible is a work of fiction by demonstrating that someone has in fact lived beyond 120 years of age? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.101.9.1 (talk)

This is for a change that needs to be made: I found this in the biography section, "Frédéric became a doctor, and she outlived him as well, as he died in 1963 in a motorcycle accident, also at the age of 36.[7]" The problem is that 2 of the other references state that he died in 1960, one does this by deduction. Reference 1 states, "He became a medical doctor and died before her, in an automobile accident in 1960." and Reference 9 states, "She went on to outlive all of her immediate family, her husband by 55 years, Yvonne by 63 years and Frédéric by 37 years." For the second reference, 1997 minus "37 years" would equate to 1960. Also, Reference 7 does not state that he died in a motocycle accident so I have no idea where this information came from, while Reference 1 clearly states that he died in an automobile accident. Somedifferentstuff (talk) 21:13, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Updated section. Somedifferentstuff (talk) 12:15, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why isn't there any mention of Li Ching-Yuen in this article? He was way before any forms of verification, so I can understand why he wouldn't be the oldest verified person like Calment is, but shouldn't he at least be made a note of? I don't think his existence should go unnoticed, after all - his lifespan viciously exceeds Calment's! Cybersteel8 (talk) 02:50, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If we have to mention Li Ching-Yuen, we also have to mention every single person who have claimed to be extremely old, and that would be hundres. Many of these people have not been recorded and/or have not been able to put forward enough evidence to back their claims. (In fact most of them had nothing but their word) There is no reason to belive any of them because of that - lack of evidence. It is probable that some of them are true, but we don't know. However we now have one example of disputed cases under the 'Recognition' section, wich is enough, and it also mentions the two living cases. I guess we could also put in a link to the article Longevity myths. --Leoj83 (talk) 16:40, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is what the wiki page says:

She ascribed her longevity and relatively youthful appearance for her age to olive oil, which she said she poured on all her food and rubbed onto her skin, as well as a diet of port wine,she ate nearly one kilo of chocolate every week and 1 million kilos of acai berries with whip cream on every Thursday for Taco Night..[10]

And when I click on the link, this is what was actually written:

The French had their own theories about why she lived so long, noting that she used to eat more than two pounds of chocolate a week, treat her skin with olive oil, drank port wine and rode a bicycle until she was 100.

I don't really think any of this should be included because I don't know if any of it is truth. --Brian Earl Haines (talk) 19:28, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

At the bottom of the article, in the "Records box", it sais Calment have been the oldest undisputed recorded person ever since 17 sep. 1989 to present day - right? The thing is, however, a few persons has since past that record of 114 years and 209 days Calment broke in sep 1989. The second-oldest person ever was Sarah Knauss who died at age 119 years and 97 days in 1999. That means, in the case of Calment, we should not count from sep 1989 - instead from the date when Calment was 119 years and 98 days: 30 may 1994 The person/s who once wrote the date sep 1989, I know how they are thinking, but it is not correct. What do you think? --Leoj83 (talk) 00:29, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]