Maurice Noël Floquet (25 December 1894 – 10 November 2006) was, aged 111 and 320 days, France's former oldest man on record and was one of the last surviving French veterans of World War I.

The third wound occurred at Beauséjour, part of the 2nd Battle of Champagne; a lump of rock pierced Floquet's throat and obstructed his breathing.

[citation needed] On 24 March 2005, Floquet was promoted by president Jacques Chirac to the rank of officer in the Légion d'honneur.

[4] In May 2006, Floquet became France's oldest verified man on record, when he surpassed Algerian-born Émile Fourcade (1884–1995), who lived to age 111 years and 153 days.

(France's then newly crowned oldest man, Aimé Avignon, who was born on 2 February 1897, thus making him almost 110 years old, did not serve in the war.