Talk:Jean Thurel

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When I first started reading this article, I saw the birth and death dates and assumed it was vandalism or poorly sourced, but was surprised to keep reading. Of course the question remains what did he do to live so long when most people of his class died by 40 or 50. Perhaps lots of fatty cheese and wine, the French paradox, and walking instead of taking a carriage! Anyway, good article good work. Green Cardamom (talk) 15:39, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Be careful in automatically assuming that his claimed age is true. It is possible that he faked something in his life story at some point and exaggerated his age. Futurist110 (talk) 00:29, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Proof? 68.4.127.102 (talk) 05:34, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Since Thurel served in the same regiment throughout his entire career it is unlikely that he would have been able to misrepresent his length of service - regimental records were perfunctory by modern standards but the date of his enlistment would be on his pay sheet. The rank and file in 18th century armies generally served for as long as they could met the basic physical requirements of being able to march long distances, carry a heavy musket and bite open their cartridges (sound teeth needed). The average age of the men in a infantry regiment which had avoided heavy casualties might accordingly be well over 30. However Fusilier Thurel does seem to have been an exceptional soldier by the standards of any century. Buistr (talk) 11:05, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Incredible service career

This man should get a lot more credit for his longevity of service. I know nowaday you will probably get forced into retirement and not really anyone nowaday has more than 50-60 years in the 20th century. There should be a page listing longest known military career service. I think this guy hand down got the record unless there's anyone else with longer record....

ITN wrong

ITN says he was a soldier 90 years, but the article says 75 years. Cough cough. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8805:5800:AD00:14B8:49C3:861E:1474 (talk) 00:12, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

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Debunked?

According to French WP, Thurel died at about 81, nothing like 107 or so. This is a heads-up since he's scheduled to appear on the main page again on Sept 17, 2017. I have neither the time nor the resources to research it properly. Cheers, Awien (talk) 11:48, 10 September 2017 (UTC)