She loves chocolate and port, as

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 told you last January, on the occasion of her 118th birthday.

Sister André, a nun from Var living in a nursing home in Toulon, became the new dean of humanity on Monday, calculated

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.

Aged 118, she succeeds Japanese Kane Tanaka, whose death occurred in her 119th year.

It is therefore once again France, and more particularly Provence, which is home to the oldest person on earth.

For a long time, this "title" was held by Jeanne Calment, who died in Arles at the age of 122 years, 5 months and 14 days on August 4, 1997. She is still currently the human having lived the longest, although her age would have made the object, for a time, of doubts.

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Japan: Kane Tanaka, the doyenne of humanity, died at 119

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