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Birth certificate of Jeanne Calment. Calment was born on 21 February 1875 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence. [1] Some of her close family members also had an above-average lifespan as her older brother, François (1865–1962), lived to the age of 97, her father, Nicolas (1837–1931), who was a shipbuilder, 93, and her mother, Marguerite Gilles (1838–1924), who was from a family of ...
The idea you are citing it as evidence that Calment's age was faked and there was a switch, is a highly selective or incomplete reading of the journalistic account, which brings up evidence of Yvonne's time in a sanitorium, as well as the fact that Yvonne would have needed to bribe two notaries and a priest.
Alumnum has removed the redirect on the Yvonne Calment article (which used to redirect here) and created a new page for Yvonne Calment. They have then edited this article to link to the new article (and there was a bit of an edit war over that action). The new Yvonne Calment article has been listed for deletion. Oska 23:49, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Russian researchers have suggested that Jeanne Calment, thought to have been the oldest person to have ever lived, actually faked her age. Russian researchers have suggested that Jeanne Calment ...
The French validators never asked her about that, despite the fact that they mention in their verification article during the 1950s Jeanne Calment was living with Yvonne's husband and listed in the census as the mother of Yvonne's son who lived next door. Calment's deal deal with her own safekeeper of documents, the Arles Notary public, Andre ...
The world's oldest person, 122-year-old Jeanne Calment, is also famous for pulling off the world's most notable real estate transaction. Read Full Story The post 122-Year-Old Jeanne Calment, The ...
Calment in fact died in 1934, but because her family didn't want the need for taxes to go up so high, they pretended it was the death of her daughter Yvonne by allowing Yvonne to adopt Calment's name and birth date.
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