フランス最高齢男性死去、１１２歳

【フォールドフランスＡＦＰ＝時事】フランス最高齢の男性ジュール・テオバルドさんが死去した。１１２歳。家族が５日、ＡＦＰに明らかにした。（写真は仏海外県マルティニクの県都フォールドフランスで、ＡＦＰの取材に応じるジュール・テオバルドさん）
　テオバルドさんはカリブ海のフランス海外県マルティニク出身。県都フォールドフランスの自宅で亡くなった。
　テオバルドさんは１９０９年４月１７日生まれで、港湾労働者や漁師として働き、３人の子を育てた。２０１９年にＡＦＰの取材に応じ、天命ならば２００歳まで生きられるとした上で、「ささやかだが幸せな人生を送ってきた。一片の悔いもない」と語っていた。
　存命する世界最高齢の男性はスペインのサトゥルニノ・デラフエンテ・ガルシアさんで、５日現在で１１２歳２３６日。テオバルドさんより２か月と１週間早く生まれた。
　存命の世界最高齢は日本の田中カ子さんで、５日現在で１１８歳２７６日となっている。
　史上最高齢の男性は日本の木村次郎右衛門さんで、２０１３年に亡くなった時の年齢は１１６歳５４日だった。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/10/06-13:54）

France's oldest man Jules Theobald has died at the age of 112, his family told AFP Tuesday.
Theobald, who hailed from the Caribbean island of Martinique, a French overseas department, died at his home in the island's main city Fort-de-France.
Born on April 17, 1909 -- though family legend had it he was born two years earlier -- the father of three worked as a docker and a fisherman.
In a 2019 interview with AFP he insisted feistily that if it were down to me I could live until I'm 200! I've had a good little life! I don't have any regrets.
As recently as March, residents had voted the keen dancer and domino player honorary president of his Pointe des Negres home district.
He will leave a great void, although his passing was rather expected, Fort-de-France deputy mayor Steeve Moreau told AFP.
He loved his district. He knew everybody and everybody knew him -- he was very close to people.
The oldest man in the world is Spain's Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia, aged 112 years and 236 days as of Tuesday. He was born two months and one week before Theobald.
France was also home to the oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified -- Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 aged 122 years and 164 days.
The oldest known living person is now Japanese woman Kane Tanaka of Japan, aged 118 years, 276 days.
French nun Lucile Randon -- who survived Covid earlier this year -- is meanwhile the oldest known living European, aged 117 and 236 days.
Japan's Jiroemon Kimura, who died in 2013 aged 116 years and 54 days, was the oldest man ever whose age has been verified.