PARIS, September 8, 2008 (AFP) - A 59-year-old Frenchwoman has given birth to triplets who are in good health, the Paris hospital treating her said on Monday.

The babies were delivered overnight Saturday, said a spokesman at the Cochin hospital.

The woman, of Vietnamese origin, is thought to have resorted to a private Vietnamese clinic willing to overlook the age limit for egg donation and in vitro fertilisation (IVF), set at 45 in Vietnam, according to press reports.