The theory of Russian scientists sparked an international debate about the oldest woman in the world

A group of scientists from France and Switzerland proved that the Frenchwoman Jeanne Calman, who died in the 1997 year, really died at the age of 122 years and 165 days, so she rightfully holds the record of longevity.

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A new study was triggered by a recent statement by the Russians. In February, Nikolai Zak from the Moscow Society of Naturalists published in a magazine Rejuvenation Research article claiming that Jeanne Kalman actually died in 1934 at the age of 54.

According to the version of Zach and his co-authors, for more than six decades Jeanne was portrayed by her daughter Yvonne, who, after the death of her mother, allegedly took her shape and began to live according to the documents of Jeanne Kalman so as not to pay the inheritance tax that would ruin her.

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Thus, according to the Russian scientist, not Xanna Kalman died at the age of 1997 years, but her daughter Yvonne died at the age of 122 in the 99 year.

As evidence, Zach cites demographic indicators, the life expectancy of Joan’s ancestors, changes in the woman’s appearance, various rumors, and the lack of publicity.

As the article says, “Madame Calment managed to remain in the shadows until 1985, when she moved into a nursing home at the age of almost 110 years,” despite the fact that “in 1975, French newspapers wrote about another centenarian who celebrated her 95th birthday.” birthday".

"Dozens of accomplices"

This week was published new study, in which French and Swiss scientists call the Russian scientists’ version “an unfounded conspiracy theory based on inaccurate facts.”

The authors provide a number of evidence of the veracity of Jeanne Calment's story, in particular, an archival publication from a local newspaper in the French city of Arles, where the Calment family lived. An article from 1934 tells the story of Yvonne Calment, who died at the age of 36 from illness. At Yvonne’s funeral, as the newspaper writes, “an unusually large crowd of townspeople gathered.”

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Scientists note that it is unlikely that among such a large public there were no people who would have noticed the substitution - “unless we consider the version that Yvonne had dozens of accomplices.”

The study also rejects the version of Russian scientists that it is statistically impossible to live to 122.

A group of scientists from the University of Geneva compiled a mathematical model based on a database of centenarians born in France between 1875 and 1903. Statistically, the probability of surviving to 122 years turned out to be equal to 1 of 10 millions, that is, mathematically, the story of Jeanne Kalman fits perfectly into the scope of the possible.

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“Considering that since the beginning of the 8th century, a total of at least 10-100 million people were born in the world who lived to be 122 years old, the existence at the end of the XNUMXth century of a person who lived to be XNUMX years old sounds quite plausible,” says one of the authors of the study , Professor of Gerontology at the University Hospitals in Geneva François Errmann.

On Wednesday this week, two days after the publication of a new study, the Tarascon commune prosecutor's office announced that it would not amend the death certificate of Jeanne Kalman.

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