The oldest man in France, Jules Theobald, passed away on Tuesday aged 112 at his home in Fort-de-France on the Caribbean island of Martinique.
Born on April 17, 1909 – although family legend says he was born two years earlier – the father of three worked as a loader and fisherman.
In a 2019 AFP interview, Theobald vigorously insisted that “if I depended on me, I would live to be 200! I had a good life! ” I do not regret anything “.
In March of this year, locals voted the keen dancer and domino player to be the honorary president of their hometown of Pointe des Negres. “It will leave a big void, although his death is long overdue,” Fort-de-France vice president Steve Moreau told AFP. “He loved the city. He knew everyone and everyone knew him. He was very close to people. “
The oldest man in the world is Spanish Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia, 112 years and 236 days this tuesday. He was born two months and a week earlier than Theobald. The oldest person in the world who is still alive is now Japanese Kane Tanaka, 118 years and 276 days. In turn, French nun Lucille Randon – what survived covid-19 earlier this year – the oldest living Europeans, he is 117 years old and 236 days old.
O Japanese Jiroemon Kimura, what died in 2013 at the age of 116 years and 54 dayswas the oldest man of all time to be confirmed. However, France was also home to the oldest person of all time, whose age has been independently verified – Jeanne Calent, who died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days.
