'''Marie Marthe Augustine Lemaitre Brémont''' (née Mésange; 25 April 1886 – 6 June 2001)<ref name=lobs-20010607 /> was the [[oldest people|oldest recognised person in the world]] from November 2000 until her death at age 115 years and 42 days.<ref name=AP-20010606>{{cite news |url=https://www.apnews.com/40402dbb6f282ac42f9f973c97439287 |title=115-Year-Old French Woman Dies |publisher=[[Associated Press|AP]] |date=6 June 2001 |access-date=18 May 2019 |quote=Bremont celebrated her 115th birthday on April 25. She is considered the world's oldest person since the death of Eva Morris of the United Kingdom in November, just four days before her 115th birthday.}}</ref> She was born in [[Noëllet]], [[Maine-et-Loire]], on April 25, 1886.<ref name=lacroix-20001115 /> Her first husband, railway worker Constant Lemaître, died from his wartime injuries shortly after the end of the [[First World War]].<ref name=lobs-20010607 /> Brémont remarried to a taxi driver, Florentin Brémont, who died in 1967.<ref name=lobs-20010607 /> They had no children.<ref name=bbc-bremont>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1374164.stm |title=World's oldest woman dies at 115 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=6 June 2001 |access-date=29 December 2007}}</ref> Over the course of her life, she worked as a farmer, a nanny, a [[seamstress]] and in a [[pharmaceutical]] factory.<ref name=lobs-20010607 /> At 103, she was hit by a car and broke her arm as a result.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://articles.latimes.com/2001/jun/08/local/me-8038 |title=Marie Bremont, 115; Believed to Be Oldest Person in the World |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=8 June 2001 |access-date=2 June 2013}}</ref> She died at a retirement home in [[Candé]], [[Maine-et-Loire]].<ref name=bbc-bremont />
=== Germaine Haye ===
'''Germaine Haye''' (née Germain; 10 October 1888 – 18 April 2002) was France's oldest living person for about a year, following the death of 115-year-old [[#Marie Brémont|Marie Brémont]] on 6 June 2001 until her own death at age 113 years and 190 days.<ref name=ShortNews>{{in lang|de}}[http://www.shortnews.de/start.cfm?id=377083 "113-jährige Französin in Seniorenheim verstorben"], (""113-year-old Frenchwoman dies in retirement home"), ShortNews.de, 2002-04-19. Retrieved 2007-11-11.</ref> At the time of her death, she was the [[List of European supercentenarians|oldest living person in Europe]] and fourth oldest in the world.<ref name="GRG-B-2015"/>
