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Lucile Randon has died, she was the oldest person in the world
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The longest-lived
She died at 118 years Lucile Randon, better known as Sister Andrè, the oldest person in the world. She was born in the south of France on February 11, 1904. She died in her sleep in a retirement home in Toulon.
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Dean of Humanity
She had inherited the title of "doyenne of humanity" in April 2022 after the death of Kane Tanaka, a 119-year-old Japanese woman. No official institution actually awards these titles of dean, but experts in the field agreed that the sister was, at the time, the oldest living person whose marital status had been ascertained.
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Guinness World Record
The primacy of Sister Andrè was recorded in the Guinness of Records on April 25. Nailed to a wheelchair, blind, Sister André regretted losing some of her physical abilities.
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A liberation
There is a great sadness but she wanted it, it was her desire to reach her beloved brother. For her it is a liberation," explained David Tavella, head of communications at Sainte-Catherine-Labouré residential institution for the elderly who are not self-sufficient.
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One of her important thought
"They say that work kills, for me it was work that made me live, I worked until I was 108 years old," said Sister Andrè in April 2022 when she was appointed doyenne of humanity, after being dean of the French and then of the Europeans.
