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((Short description|Canadian supercentenarian (1880–1998)))
((More citations needed|date=September 2021))
((Infobox person
| name               = Marie-Louise Meilleur
| image              = Marie-Louise Meilleur, 1998.jpg
| caption            = Meilleur in 1998
| birth_name         = Marie-Louise Fébronie Chassé
| birth_date         = ((Birth date|1880|8|29|mf=y))
| birth_place        = [[Kamouraska, Quebec]], 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        = [[Corbeil, Ontario]], Canada
| known_for          = [[National longevity recordholders#Canada|Oldest validated]] Canadian ever
<br />Oldest living person (August 4, 1997 – April 16, 1998)
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'''Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur''' (((née)) '''Chassé'''; August 29, 1880 – April 16, 1998) was a Canadian [[supercentenarian]]. She is the [[List of Canadian supercentenarians|oldest validated Canadian ever]] and upon the death of longevity world record holder [[Jeanne Calment]], became the world's [[Oldest people|oldest recognized living person]].<ref name="JC">((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><ref name="arti_Mari">((Cite web| title = Marie-Louise Meilleur, 118; Listed as Oldest Person in World| agency =  Associated Press| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date = April 18, 1998| access-date = December 5, 2018| url = http://articles.latimes.com/1998/apr/18/news/mn-40557))</ref>

== Early life ==
Marie-Louise Fébronie Chassé was born on August 29, 1880, in [[Kamouraska, Quebec]], to Pierre Charles Pitre Chassé and Marie-Catherine Febronie Lésvesque.
She married her first husband, Étienne Leclerc, at age 20 in 1900. Leclerc was a fisherman and died of [[pneumonia]] on February 24, 1911, aged 39. They had six children; four survived to adulthood.

In the following twelve months, both of her parents died: her father on June 25, 1911, aged 61; and her mother on February 23, 1912, aged 59.

=== Move to Ontario ===
In 1913, Marie-Louise placed two of her four surviving children with family or friends, and moved to the [[Ontario]] border to help support her sister, whose children were sick with [[diphtheria]]. There she married her second husband, Hector Meilleur, on October 25, 1915. They had six children together.

== Return to Kamouraska and later life ==
Meilleur did not return to the Quebec region until 1939, when she settled again in Kamouraska. Her second husband Hector Meilleur died in 1972 at age 93, of [[Diabetes mellitus|diabetes]].

From that time Meilleur lived with one of her daughters for a period. When she needed more care, she moved to a nursing home in [[Corbeil, Ontario|Corbeil]]. Of the twelve children born to her, only four survived her. She had 85 grandchildren, 80 great-grandchildren, 57 great-great-grandchildren, and four great-great-great-grandchildren.

Meilleur quit smoking at age 102 in 1982, after catching a cold. In 1986, when asked the secret to long life, she claimed it was hard work. Meilleur was a [[Vegetarianism|vegetarian]].<ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-08-14-9708150394-story.html "Canadian Women, 116, Is Oldest Documented Person"]. ''The Chicago Tribune''. August 14, 1997. Retrieved October 18, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/96u5v "Veg Out, Live Longer"]. ''The Independent''. October 6, 2013. Retrieved October 18, 2021.</ref> She became the world's oldest living person on August 4, 1997, after the death of 122-year-old Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment. By her 117th birthday, she was too weak to talk, and could hear only if someone shouted directly into her right ear.<ref>((cite web|last1=Thomas|first1=Robert McG. Jr.|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|access-date=May 11, 2016|date=April 18, 1998))</ref>

== Death ==
Marie Louise Meilleur died of a [[thrombus]] at age 117 on April 16, 1998, in Corbeil. One of her sons was living in the same nursing home, and her oldest living daughter, Gabrielle Vaughan, was ninety.  Vaughan died in 2004 at age 96.<ref>http://www3.sympatico.ca/mgchassey/M_Lse/M_Lse.htm ((in lang|fr))</ref><ref>http://www3.sympatico.ca/mgchassey/M_Lse/M_Lse2.htm ((in lang|fr))</ref> Meilleur was buried alongside her second husband in [[Swisha]], where she had previously lived.

American [[Sarah Knauss]] (1880–1999) succeeded her as the oldest living person.<ref name="JC" />

== See also ==
* [[Ageing|Aging]]
* [[List of the verified oldest people]]
* [[List of Canadian supercentenarians]]

== References ==
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[[Category:1880 births]]
[[Category:1998 deaths]]
[[Category:Canadian supercentenarians]]
[[Category:Women supercentenarians]]
[[Category:People from Bas-Saint-Laurent]]

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