A Lifetime of Memories
No one had more memories than Jeanne She remembered when telephones Calment. were brand new: they were invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, when Calment was a year old. She recalled visiting Paris as a child in the late 1880s and seeing the Eiffel Tower being built. As a young girl, she knew Vincent Van Gogh personally. She remembered the first rumblings of World War I in 1914. And she was already an old woman of 70 when World War II ended in 1945.