Louis de Cazenave

Louis de Cazenave (October 16, 1897 – January 20, 2008) was, at the time of his death, the oldest surviving French veteran of World War I. De Cazenave became the oldest poilu following the death of 111-year-old Maurice Floquet on November 10, 2006. He was also the oldest living Frenchman, as of August 23, 2007, and became the fourth-oldest man in Europe and the eleventh-oldest man in the world on December 11, 2007 until his own death just 40 days later.