The Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calman, born February 21, 1875 in Arles, then still part of the Third French Republic, and died on August 4, 1997, is considered to be the most long-lived in all known history. The total life expectancy of her was 122 years. How was the life of the famous Frenchwoman?
A Brief Life Story of Madame Kalman
Jeanne Louise was a fairly late child, as she was born when her parents were already under 40 years old. She had an older brother, François, who also lived a lot, dying at the age of 97 in 1962. The Kalman family belonged to the class of the Arles bourgeoisie. The Frenchwoman’s father was engaged in shipbuilding, and her mother was from a family of hereditary millers.
Documents have been preserved to this day, according to which Joan of Louise was listed as a minor, after she studied at Arles elementary school, then at a boarding school, and then at a secondary school of her native city.
According to Kalman’s recollections, one day she saw Van Gogh who came into a nearby shop who bought something there and seemed to her “dirty and poorly dressed” and “scary as a mortal sin, he had a vile disposition, and he smelled of booze.”
Jeanne Louise married at the age of 21 for the merchant and owner of her own store, Fernand Nicolas Calman, after which the future centenarian began to live a rather prosperous life and got the opportunity to not work. The couple had only one daughter, who, unfortunately, died of pneumonia at a fairly young age.
Ms. Kalman ended up in a nursing home. After 110 years, reporters, biographies and historians came to her very often, who sought to document the life of Jeanne Louise.
