Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
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Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing, also known as Giscard or VGE, was a French politician who served as President of France from 1974 to 1981.
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
Socialist Party (France)
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The Socialist Party is a French centre-left and social-democratic political party. It holds pro-European views. The PS was for decades the largest party of the "French Left" and used to be one of the two major political parties in the French Fifth Republic, along with the Union for a Popular Movement. It replaced the earlier French Section of the Workers' International in 1969 and is currently led by First Secretary Olivier Faure. The PS is a member of the Party of European Socialists, Progressive Alliance and Socialist International.
From left to right: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Bertrand Delanoë and Ségolène Royal sitting in the front row at a meeting held on 6 February 2007 by the PS at the Carpentier Hall in Paris
Rue de Solférino, a party seat in Paris which was sold to Apsys in December 2017 for 45.55 million euros