Melanie Leblais

Mélanie Leblais (née Jans; born 4 September 1903) is a verified French supercentenarian.

She was born in a French town called Mouais, located in the department Loire-Atlantique. Her parents were Peter and Augustinus (née Blanchais) Jans. As a teenager, she worked as a housekeeper and seamstress in the neighbourhood. Her brother Marcel died of tuberculosis in the late 1910s when he was just 21 years old.

On July 5, 1921, she married a guard and railway worker named Theophilus Leblais, whom she had met earlier that year. The couple had one child in total; a son named after his father. Melanie became a widow in 1964. Around twenty later, she moved to a nursing home. As of 2015, her son Theophilus is 93 years old. Melanie currently lives in Le Mans.