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Jeanne Louise Calment of France was the oldest person who has ever lived; she had the longest confirmed lifespan in history, she died at the age of 122. Calment was given the Guinness Records' "world's oldest living person" title. According to Wikipedia, "her lifespan has been thoroughly documented by scientific study, with more records having been produced to verify her age than for any other case. She became famous when it was known that she was the last living person who have met the great artist Vicent Van Gogh, she was 13 years old when she met the artist.

What was her health secret? Why was she able to live that long? She had no secret at all in living long, her health and lifstyle is described in Wikipedia this way:

Calment's remarkable health presaged her later record. At age 85, she took up fencing, and at 100, she was still riding a bicycle. She was reportedly neither athletic, nor fanatical about her health.

Calment lived on her own until shortly before her 110th birthday, when it was decided that she needed to be moved to a nursing home after a cooking accident (she could barely see) started a small fire in her flat. However, Calment was still in good shape, and was able to walk until she fractured her femur during a fall at age 114 years and 11 months, which required surgery. After her operation, Calment became confined to a wheelchair and weighed 45kg in 1994. Calment became ill with the flu shortly before her 116th birthday. She occasionally smoked until the age of 117, only five years before her death. She ascribed her longevity and relatively youthful appearance for her age to olive oil, which she said she poured on all her food and rubbed onto her skin, as well as a diet of port wine, and nearly 1 kilo of chocolate eaten every week. Calment is the oldest person known to have survived a hip operation.