The sister of the French nun Andre, at 118, is now the oldest known person in the world, as claims, after the death of a Japanese woman a year her senior. Japan Kane Tanaka, considered the oldest in the world by the international database on longevity (IDL) and Guinness World Records, died on Monday at 119.”Sister Andre becomes the oldest, by far, because the next elder is a Polish woman who is 115 years old,” said Laurent Toussaint, computer scientist and amateur tracker for the IDL as well as the French Institute for Studies demographic (INED).
Lucile Randon, better known as Sister Andre, was born in the south of France on February 11, 1904, even before the First World War, which was still a decade. Sister Andre lives a happy life in a nursing home in Toulon along the Mediterranean coast.”She is happy, she really likes this attention,” said the communications director of the house, David Tavella, adding that a short press conference would take place on Tuesday morning.
She starts every day with breakfast then a morning mass, although her eyes can no longer see. “But it’s just another step, because her real objective is to go beyond Jeanne Calment,” said a Frenchwoman who would be 122 years old at his death in 1997, said Tavella.According to reports, Sister Andre obtained a handwritten new year of President Emmanuel Macron this year, among the many letters and boxes of chocolates sent by sympathizers.
“I have always been admired for my wisdom and my intelligence, but now people got there because I am stubborn,” she jokes an AFP in an interview for her 118th tour around the sun .I think about getting out of this business but they won’t leave me,” she said.Lucile Randon previously worked as a governess in Paris – a period that she has already noted as the happiest period of her life – before making her religious wishes with the girls of charity. Who was Kane Tanaka?
Born January 2, 1903, Tanaka liked to play the board game Othello and had a penchant for chocolate and sparkling drinks. It was certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest living person in 2019 at the age of 116. In the media, she said that she always appreciated life and hoped to live up to 120 years.Remarkably, most centenarians are in the so -called blue areas of the world, where people live longer than the average, like Okinawa in Japan or on the Italian island of Sardinia.But France, although it is not considered a blue zone, has 30,000 centenarians, according to the Institute Insee Statistics, including around 400 or more.