Germaine Haye

Germaine Haye née Germain (October 10, 1888 – April 18, 2002) was a supercentenarian and France's oldest living person for about a year, following the death of 115-year-old Marie Brémont on June 6, 2001 until her own death at age 113 years 190 days. At the time of her death, she ranked as one of the 100 oldest persons of all time, a distinction she held until mid-March 2008. Haye lived in the town of Mortagne-au-Perche in Orne, Normandy, western France, since she was 19 years old. She worked as a babysitter and teacher until her three daughters grew up and left home. She then devoted herself to literature, publishing poems under the pseudonym Anne Moranget.