Re:Investigating Jeanne Calment’s Longevity Record
by fanfantm on Monday December 17, 2018 @03:44PM
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However something from this book passage does not seem to fit: most sources indicate that the "viager" annuity started to be paid in 1965 (by a local notary, not by a large French company), while Yvonne (or Jeanne?)'s death was in 1934, so if fraud happened at that time it was not to keep receiving the annuity.
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Re:Investigating Jeanne Calment’s Longevity Record
by mahkeiro on Monday December 17, 2018 @04:42PM
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Exactly the house was sold to a notary (which and this history was well known in France as he died a few years before her, and had to pay it for 32 years. Here an article from the main French economical newspaper in 1995 about it: https://www.lesechos.fr/27/12/1995/LesEchos/17052-109-ECH_l-...)
This article contains so many basic error on know fact, like naming Arles as a big city which it is clearly not, that it question just how serious it really is.