The oldest person to ever live, Jeanne Calment reached the age of 122 before dying in her hometown of Arles, France in 1997.

Calment married at 21, and gave birth to a daughter in 1898. Eventually, she outlived her husband, daughter, son-in-law, and ...

In 1997, Jeanne Calment set the record for the longest recorded time a person has lived, passing away at the age of 122 years old. So far, no one has broken this record. But even before Calment, the ...