A French nun, who is now the oldest person in the world, has shared the secret with a long life: a glass of wine every day and chocolate. At 118 and 73 days old, his sister André received the title of the oldest person in the world by the Guinness World Records (GWR) on Monday.
Sister André was already the older woman in Europe when she was 117 years old, but after the death of Japanese women Kane Tanaka, the title was given to her.

The GWR said on its website that she was born on February 11, 1904, under the name of Lucille Randon. She took care of children as a governess and became a religious during the Second World War in 1944.

Sister André was alive during the First World War, the Spanish flu of 1918 and became the oldest survivor in the world in 2021. She was cited by The Guardian as last year that she “did not even realize that I ‘had”.

For 12 years, his sister André has lived in a nursing home in Toulon and passed the top of the pandemic last year in his room.

The record of the oldest person of all time is also held by a Frenchwoman named Jeanne Louise Calment who lived up to 122 years and 164 days. She too used to take a glass of wine from time to time and had a particular penchant for chocolate.

Sister André now wants to break this record. She thinks that the Calment record “is at hand, if it will stay on earth, it could do it as well,” said David Tavella, the confidante of the nun, to the AFP news agency.

She received a letter from Pope Francis, as well as the newly re -elected French president Emmanuel Macron. The mayor of Toulon, Hubert Falco, told his sister André that she was “an object of pride and an example for the whole world”.