The oldest person to ever live, Jeanne Calment reached the age of 122 before dying in her hometown of Arles, France in 1997. But along the way, she eschewed conventional medicine, smoked cigarettes ...

A French woman, named Jeanne Calment, holds the record for the oldest living woman ever recorded, who eventually died at the staggering age of 122 years and 164 days. Here's her fascinating story ...

In 2018, a Russian research team set off a scientific controversy when it claimed that Jeanne Calment had “only ... the existence of a 122-year-old person around the late 1900s is something ...