Exactly the house was sold to a notary (which and this history was well known in France as he died a few years before her, and had to pay it for 32 years. Here

Exactly the house was sold to a notary (which and this history was well known in France as he died a few years before her, and had to pay it for 32 years. Here an article from the main French economical newspaper in 1995 about it: https://www.lesechos.fr/27/12/1995/LesEchos/17052-109-ECH_l-acheteur-en-viager-de-la-maison-de-jeanne-calment-est-decede.htm https://www.lesechos.fr/27/12/1995/LesEchos/17052-109-ECH_l-...) This article contains so many basic error on know fact, like naming Arles as a big city which it is clearly not, that it question just how serious it really is.