122 years old

[imafishingnutt]

This women is the oldest recorded living person in the world her name is Jeanne Calment
she lived to be 122 years old maby you found some coins she dropped

 

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[Diggerbarns]

Wow! Just think of all she has seen? From the invention of cars,to putting man on the moon.God bless her

 

[austin_silver_hunter]

Y'know, I'm havin' an OK time here on my little marble-ride, but I gotta tell ya - please don't let me live to 122!


(Bless her, though)

 

[Gypsy Heart]

I hope I look that good at 122

Jeanne Louise Calment was born in Arles, France on February 21, 1875. She once met Vincent Van Gogh in her father's shop. Her genes may have contributed to her longevity as her father lived to the age of 94 and her mother to the age of 86. She married a distant cousin at the age of 21. Her only grandson died in 1963. She rode a bicycle to the age of 100.

In October of 1995, much press coverage announced that Jeanne had exceeded the lifespan of Shigechiyo (Chigechiyo) Izumi, who until then had held the claim to the longest lived human. In fact, work by John Wilmoth indicates that Izumi may have only been 105 when he died, meaning that Jeanne may have outlived Izumi in 1980. If that is accurate, Jeanne would have become the longest lived human in 1991 when she exceeded the longevity of Carrie White, who died at the age of 116.

Quotes attributed to Jeanne Calment:

In life, one sometimes makes bad deals.
Comments on the notary public, Andre-Francois Raffray, who purchased her apartment, promising to pay $500 per month until Jeanne died. He paid twice the market value for the apartment before dying in December of 1995.

Comments on her vision of the future on her 120th birthday.

I've been forgotten by a good God. (or L'Oubliée de Dieu?)
I've only got one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it. (Je n'ai jamai eu qu'une seule ride et je suis assise dessus.)
I'm a normal woman.
I am very brave and I'm afraid of nothing.
I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.
Jeanne Calment published a CD and a VCR tape titled "Maitresse du Temps".

Jean Calment came from a bourgeois family and never has to work. Her husband, a cousin, was a prosperous storeowner who offered her a life of ease revolving around tennis, bicycling, swimming, roller skating, piano and opera. In later years, Calment lived mostly off the income from her apartment, which she sold cheaply to a lawyer when she was 90. Andre-Francois Raffray, who apparently relied on the actuarial table, signed a contingency contract with Calment and agreed to pay a life annuity of 2,500 francs ($500) a month under a deal to make him the owner of Calment's flat when she dies. Yet, he died at 77 and his family was still paying for more than a year unitl she died. Altogether, they paid more than 900,000 francs ($180,000), three times the value of the house.

 

[imafishingnutt]

This is not the social security offices favorite person...LOL

 

[rugratt43]

Great find! What Detector did you use?