Camille Loiseau
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Camille Loiseau (February 13, 1892 - August 12, 2006) was the oldest living person in France for more than a year, until her death. Camille was ranked 5th in the world in the 2007 edition of Guinness World Records.
She achieved the position, known in France as a doyenne, on the passing of Anna Primout on 26 March 2005.
She was the oldest verified person living in Europe since the 28 December 2005 passing of Virginia Dighero-Zolezzi. She became the fifth oldest verified living person in the world on the passing of Susie Gibson on 16 February 2006.
The French longevity recordholder, also the oldest verified person in history, is Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122.
Following the January 28, 2007 passing of American Emma Tillman, Camille Loiseau was confirmed as the oldest verified person from the year 1892 (in other words, she gets the '1892' oldest person title, whilst Emma Tillman was the last known person born that year who had a shot at passing her, but came up short eventually).
As is common in France, Camille Loiseau chose not to use her husband's last name: Chadal.
