HE Was BORN In The 1600s But Died In The 1800s (OLDEST SOLDIER EVER)

"Jean Thurel, or Jean Theurel 6 September 1698 – 10 March 1807), was a fusilier of the French Army and a centenarian with an extraordinarily long career that spanned over 75 years of service in the Touraine Regiment. Born in the reign of Louis XIV and dying during that of Napoleon I, Thurel lived in three different centuries."

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Fought in battle at age 89 and died at 108 years old.

Was born about 150 years before kerosene lanterns were invented.

There are a lot of people born during the 1600s that lived to be very old.

All this "humans are living longer than ever because modern medicine and easier working conditions and we need to raise the adulthood age from 18 to 25 blah blah blah" is a bunch of BS.