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All these types of articles always include photos of Calment, even though it's highly likely she was a fraud

Well, she was dead, her daughter was a fraud : )

There's a good New Yorker piece on this: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/was-jeanne-cal...

TL/DR: on balance the author concludes that it's easier to believe that she was genuine, all in all.

> highly likely

Citation needed.

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