Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
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Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing, also known as simply Giscard or VGE, was President of France from 1974 to 1981.
Giscard d'Estaing in 1975
Giscard d'Estaing in the 1940s
Giscard with US president John F. Kennedy at the White House in 1962
Giscard d'Estaing (right) with US president Jimmy Carter (left) in 1978
Jacques Chirac
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Jacques René Chirac was President of France from 1995 to 2007. He was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and 1986 to 1988, as well as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
…Giscard d'Estaing in the centre faced political opposition from both sides of the spectrum: from the newly unified left under Mitterrand and a rising Jacques Chirac, who resurrected Gaullism on a right-wing opposition line. In 1981, despite a high approval rating, he was defeated in a runoff against Mitterrand…
Official portrait, June 1995.
Chirac with Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu during a visit to Neptun, 1975
Jacques Chirac with president François Mitterrand (1986)
President Ronald Reagan, Jacques Chirac, Nancy Reagan and Bernadette Chirac, (White House, March 1987)