Attached Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment

There was a French woman who died just a few years ago......Jeanne Calment.  She had known Vincent Van Gogh personally.  She lived to be 122.  At the time of her death, she was the oldest known living human.

((Although there are reports -- and I believe that there are also some official birth/death records from the time -- of an Englishman who lived in the sixteenth century to be 207.))

Her father ran an art supply shop in Paris during the 1800's.  She was 14 years old at the time that Van Gogh used to trade with her father.  Van Gogh never had any money, so he always paid for his art supplies by trading paintings, sketches, etc. to her dad.

According to this elderly French woman, Van Gogh was "dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable."  Sounds like Van Gogh would have made an excellent forumite.

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