After the death of a Japanese woman, this French nun was the oldest person in the world
Sister Andre, born in South France on February 11, 1904, even before World War I. He lived a happy life in a nursing home in Toulon along the Mediterranean coast.
French nun Sister Andre, at the age of 118, is now the oldest person known in the world, as claimed, after the death of a Japanese woman one year of her senior. Kana Tanaka from Japan, considered the oldest in the world by the International Database on Long Lack (IDL) and Guinness World Records, died at the age of 119 on Monday.
"Sister Andre is indeed the eldest, and so far, because the next older is a 115 -year -old Polish woman," said Laurent Toussaint, a computer scientist and amateur tracker for IDL and French Demographic Study Institute (INED).
Lucile Randon, better known as Sister Andre, was born in South France on Februar...