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| {{short description|French Canadian supercentenarian}} | |||
| {{Infobox person | |||
| |name=Marie-Louise Meilleur | |||
| |image=Marie-Louise Meilleur, 1998.jpg | |||
| |caption=Meilleur in 1998 | |||
| |birth_date= {{Birth date|1880|8|29|mf=y}} | |||
| |birth_place= ], ], Canada | |||
| |death_date= {{death date|mf=yes|1998|4|16}}<br>(aged {{age in years and days|1880|8|29|1998|4|16}}) | |||
| |death_place= ], ], Canada | |||
| |death_cause= ] | |||
| |known_for= ] Canadian ever Only Canadian to reach 117 | |||
| |parents=Pierre Chassé (1849–1911)<br>Febronie Levesque (1852–1912) | |||
| |spouse=Etienne Leclerc (1872–1911, m.1900–1911, his death)<br>Hector Meilleur (1879–1972, m. 1915–1972, his death) | |||
| |children=Marie-Louise (1901–1940)<br>Marie-Julienne (1902-1903)<br>Marie-Albertine (1904-1904)<br>Gerard (1906–1986)<br>Gabrielle (1908–2004)<br>Maurice (1910–1973)<br>Ernest (1916–2005)<br>Pauline (1918–1980)<br>Olive (1920–2010)<br>Christie (1922–1987)<br>Alfred (1924–1986)<br>Rita (1925–2011) | |||
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| '''Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur''' (née '''Chassé'''; August 29, 1880 – April 16, 1998) was a ] ]. Meilleur is the ] and upon the death of longevity world record holder ], became the world's ]. She was succeeded as the oldest living person by American woman ] who died on December 30, 1999, at 119 years 97 days old.<ref>{{cite book | pages=295–298 | first1=Bernard| last1=Jeune | title=Supercentenarians (Demographic Research Monographs) | chapter=Jeanne Calment and her Successors. |editor1-first=Heiner |editor1-last=Maier | publisher=Springer |date=May 2010 | ISBN=978-3-642-11519-6|display-authors=etal}}</ref> | |||
| ==Early Life== | |||
| She was born in ], ], where she married her first husband, Étienne Leclerc, at age 20 in 1900 who was a fisherman. Étienne Leclerc died of ] on February 24, 1911, aged 39. Her father died on June 25, 1911, aged 61. Her mother died February 23, 1912, aged 59. Meilleur left two of her four surviving children in 1913 and moved to the ] border to help support her sister, whose children were sick with ]. She returned to the Quebec region in 1939, She had six children by her second husband, Hector Meilleur, whom she married in 1915. All of her children moved out in 1942. | |||
| ==Later Life== | |||
| Her second husband Hector meilleur died in 1972, of ] at age 93. From there she lived first with a daughter and then in a ] in ]. Out of her twelve children, only four survived her. She had 85 grandchildren, 80 great-grandchildren, 57 great-great-grandchildren, and four great-great-great-grandchildren. Meilleur smoked ] into her nineties. She quit smoking aged 102 in 1982 when she caught a ]. In 1986 when asked the secret to long life she said hard work. Hard work never kills a person. She became the oldest living person in August 4, 1997, after the death of 122-year-old Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment. Around her 117th birthday she was too weak to talk and she could only hear if someone shouted directly into her right ear.<ref name="Bhandari2007">{{cite book|author=Prem Bhandari|title=Heal & Prevent Stroke & Heart Disease|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C4qCladqAIIC&pg=PT346|date=15 May 2007|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-0-595-86217-7|pages=346–}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Jr|first1=Robert Mcg Thomas|title=Marie-Louise Meilleur, 117, And Felicie Cormier, 118|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/18/us/marie-louise-meilleur-117-and-felicie-cormier-118.html|website=The New York Times|accessdate=11 May 2016|date=18 April 1998}}</ref> | |||
| ==Death== | |||
| Marie Louise Meilleur died of a ] at age 117 in April 1998 in Corbeil, ], one of her sons was also living in the same nursing home, and her oldest living daughter, Gabrielle Vaughan, was ninety years old. Gabrielle died in 2004 aged 96.<ref>http://www3.sympatico.ca/mgchassey/M_Lse/M_Lse.htm {{fr icon}}</ref><ref>http://www3.sympatico.ca/mgchassey/M_Lse/M_Lse2.htm {{fr icon}}</ref> Meilleur was buried alongside her second husband in ], where she had previously lived. | |||
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