Sister André, born Lucile Randon on February 11, 1904, was officially declared the oldest person alive this week following the death of Kane Tanaka, a 119-year-old Japanese woman. “The good Lord is late,” he said Le Figaro this winter from her nursing home near Toulon on the French Riviera. “I have the feeling that he has forgotten me.” Born in Alès in southern France to a Protestant family, she had two brothers who fought and survived World War I. “It was rare,” he told AFP. “It was most likely two dead.” It started working
