Jeanne Calment

Assembled from 18 blocks · 2 evidence · 10 related

1. Story
2. French woman, born in Arles on 21 February 1875 and died there on 4 August 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days — the longest documented human life. Her case was investigated at unusual length by a team of demographers who cross-checked civil registers, census entries and family records; Robine and Allard published the validation in Science in 1998. In 2018 the Russian researchers Nikolay Zak and Valery Novoselov argued that the woman who died in 1997 was in fact her daughter Yvonne, who they proposed had assumed her mother's identity after the mother's death in 1934, plausibly for inheritance-tax reasons. French demographers responded with detailed rebuttals drawing on census household composition, photographic evidence and interview testimony, and the validation stands in the official record; the dispute is nonetheless a live one in print. Her longevity is one observation, and one observation supports no mechanism.
3. Knowledge
4. Maximum human lifespan
5. Jeanne Calment
6. Connections
7. Maximum human lifespan
8. Jeanne Calment dies at 122 years and 164 days
9. Calment's record is publicly challenged
10. Compression of mortality (rectangularisation of the survival curve)
11. Jeanne Calment
12. Blue Zones
13. Jeanne Calment dies at 122 years and 164 days
14. A natural limit to human lifespan is argued for, and disputed
15. Calment's record is publicly challenged
16. Evidence
17. Supports the validation of Jeanne Calment's age as 122 years and 164 days. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session.
18. Cited to document the existence and content of the identity-substitution claim, NOT to endorse it; French demographers have published rebuttals and the validated record stands. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session, and no rebuttal publication is separately cited here.