"(About Jeanne Calment) Born in 1875, she was already a wife at the time of the Dreyfus affair, a mother when General De Gaulle was in primary school, a grandmother before the 1929 crisis. She had evidently taken a liking to it, got into the part: she told of having been at Victor Hugo's funeral, of having known Van Gogh - 'dirty and sickly' -, of having danced with Joséphine Baker. She was given a solemn funeral. The President of the Republic, who was then Jacques Chirac, had sad words for the 'grandmother of the fatherland'."
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