THE OLDEST OLD At 90 years of age, Jeanne Calment of Arles, France, made a deal with her attorney: he’d pay her $500 a month until her death, whereupon he’d inherit her apartment.12 Thirty years later, the attorney died at age 77. Calment lived another two years, and at the time of her death at age 122, she had lived longer than any person in recorded history