“I had a hell of a lot of will power! A hell of a will power, you understand? And it was very useful to me.”

— Jeanne Calment

Source: Jeanne Calment: From Van Gogh's Time to Ours : 122 Extraordinary Years, 1998, p. 29

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French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human… 1875–1934

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