Marie Brémont

Marie Marthe Augustine Lemaitre Brémont (née Mesange) (25 April 1886 – 6 June 2001) was a French supercentenarian and the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death.[2] Brémont was the second Frenchwoman to hold the title, after longevity world record holder Jeanne Calment.[3]

She was born as Marie Marthe Augustine Mesange in Noëllet,[2] and her first husband, railroad worker Constant Lemaitre, was killed in the First World War. She married again to a taxi driver, Florentin Brémont, who died in 1967.[citation needed]

Over the course of her life, she worked in a pharmaceutical factory, as a nanny and as a seamstress. At 103, she was hit by a car and broke her arm.[citation needed]

She died at her retirement home at age 115 years 42 days in Candé, Maine-et-Loire, having had no children, and was the last documented surviving person born in 1886.