Yesterday, Tuesday, France bid farewell to its oldest elderly man, who, in his long and tumultuous life, which he spent between sea and land, was called “shark” because of his work in fishing.
Veteran fisherman Jules Theobald died, Tuesday morning, at the age of 112, after he also “caught” the title of the oldest man in France in 2019, after retiring from the fishing profession.
The delegate for elderly life in the city of Fort-de-France, capital of Martinique, Pauline Dundon, said that the late Theobald was “part of Martinique’s heritage that disappeared with his death.”
According to the French “martinique” website, Theobald died, on Tuesday, at the age of 112, after he became in 2019, the oldest elderly man in France, succeeding his predecessor, Charentes Roger Auvin, who held the title of oldest elderly person until 2019, the year in which he passed away at the age of 111 years old.
Jules Theobald worked as a fisherman and was nicknamed “The Shark” by his family and friends, and until his departure lived in his home by the sea in Pointe de Negres, with his youngest son Christian.
Theobald was officially born on the 17th of April 1909 in Robert, and is expected to have been born two years earlier, and is late in recording his date of birth.