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Jacques Chirac
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.
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Born 29 November 1932 · Died 26 September 2019 · Q2105
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2026· 10 entries
“This response could be a conventional one. It could also be of a different kind.”
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“The flexibility and reaction of our strategic forces allow us to respond directly against the centers of power. . . . All of our nuclear forces have been configured in this spirit.”
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“s top priority was to curb unemployment, which was consistently hovering above 10 per cent, calling for a”
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Mshale: Bernadette Et Jacques Chirac : Alliance Et Couple De Pouvoir - Portrait Anna Seebacher (pk7GN947Nd)
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El Debate: Nuevo asalto a un museo de Francia: roban varios objetos del museo del expresidente Jacques Chirac
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صوت الإمارات: A new robbery targets the Jacques Chirac Museum ten months after the one million euro theft
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Public attention spiked: 3,878 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.3× the usual 907, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: "Cohabitation" with Jospin
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The New York Times: Bernadette Chirac, Formidable Ex-First Lady of France, Dies at 93
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Public attention spiked: 10,544 Wikipedia readers in one day, 11.6× the usual 907, with 3 article edits. Coverage that week: “Bernadette Chirac, Formidable Ex-First Lady of France, Dies at 93” (The New York Times).
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2019· 5 entries
Died 2019-09-26.
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The street leading to the Louvre Abu Dhabi was named Jacques Chirac Street in November 2019 in celebration of Chirac's efforts to bolster links between France and the United Arab Emirates during his presidency
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“Overheard declaration to Vladimir Putin and Gerhard Schröder regarding British food”
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“François Mitterrand : “Tem toda razão, senhor Primeiro-ministro.”
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“Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions.”
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2011· 1 entry
A Paris court declared Chirac guilty of diverting public funds and abusing public confidence, giving him a two-year suspended prison sentence
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2010· 1 entry
Suggested Chirac was the most admired political figure in France, while Sarkozy was 32nd
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the China Foreign Affairs University (2008).
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2007· 1 entry
Juppé was one of the few chiraquiens to serve in François Fillon's government
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Collar of the Order of Charles III (2006).
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The Economist wrote that Chirac "is the most unpopular occupant of the Elysée Palace in the fifth republic's history
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Rajamitrabhorn (2004).
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Awarded honorary member of the Athens Academy (2004).
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2003· 2 entries
During the organisation and deployment of American and British forces participating in a military coalition to forcibly remove the government of Iraq controlled by the Ba'ath Party under the leadership of Saddam Hussein
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Made transatlantic negotiations impossible
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2002· 1 entry
Earned Gold Olympic Order (2002).
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2001· 1 entry
The left, represented by Bertrand Delanoë (PS), won a majority on the city council of the capital
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav (2000).
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The constitution was amended to reduce the length of the presidential term to five years, so his second term was shorter than his first
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1999· 3 entries
Awarded Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1999).
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Awarded Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (1999).
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Granted Chirac immunity while he was president of France
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Republic (1998).
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1997· 4 entries
Awarded Collar of the Order of the White Lion (1997).
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Chirac dissolved parliament for early legislative elections in a gamble designed to bolster support for his conservative economic program
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And his reduction of the presidential term from seven years to five through a referendum in 2000
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The aircraft carrier Clemenceau was decommissioned after 37 years of service, with her sister ship Foch decommissioned in 2000 after 37 years of service, leaving the French Navy with no aircraft carrier until 2001, when
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Ig Nobel Prize (1996).
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1995· 6 entries
“You only have to look back at 1935...There were people then who were against France arming itself, and look what happened.”
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Zebda criticized Chirac's declarations on the "noise and smell" of immigrant families
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Chirac began a rapprochement with NATO by joining the Military Committee and attempting to negotiate a return to the integrated military command, which failed after the French demand for parity with the United States wen
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Career landmark: President of the French Republic (1995–2007).
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Career landmark: French co-prince of Andorra (1995–2007).
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A few months before signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
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1993· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1993–1995).
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1992· 2 entries
“The Republic is not a dictatorship of rumours, a dictatorship of calumny.”
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Convinced a candidate could not become president whilst advocating anti-European policies, he called for a "yes" vote in the referendum on the Maastricht Treaty, against the opinion of Pasqua, Séguin and a majority of th
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1988· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1988–1993).
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The band Parabellum lambasted Chirac in their song Anarchie en Chiraquie ("anarchy in Chirac-land")
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1986· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1986–1986).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of France (1986–1988).
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When a student called Malik Oussekine was killed by the police, leading to massive demonstrations and the proposal's withdrawal
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1982· 1 entry
After the Auriol massacre) along with Charles Pasqua, and who was a key component of the Françafrique system, was again called to the Elysée Palace when Chirac won the 1995 presidential election
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1981· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1981–1986).
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And 1988, he unsuccessfully ran for president as the standard-bearer for the conservative Gaullist party Rally for the Republic (RPR)
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1979· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1979–1980).
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1978· 2 entries
Chirac attacked Giscard's pro-European policy and made a nationalist turn with the December 1978 Call of Cochin, initiated by his counsellors Marie-France Garaud and Pierre Juillet, which had first been called by Pompido
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1978–1981).
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1977· 2 entries
Career landmark: mayor of Paris (1977–1995).
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Chirac stood as a candidate against Michel d'Ornano, a close friend of the president, and won
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1976· 2 entries
Career landmark: party leader (1976–1994).
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1976–1978).
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1974· 2 entries
Career landmark: Minister of the Interior of France (1974–1974).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of France (1974–1976).
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1973· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1973–1973).
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Career landmark: Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (1973–1974).
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1972· 2 entries
Career landmark: Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (1972–1973).
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When he became Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development under Pompidou, who had been elected president in 1969, after de Gaulle retired
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1971· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister Delegate for Relations with Parliament (1971–1972).
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1970· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the general council (1970–1979).
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1968· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1968–1968).
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1967· 1 entry
Re-elected in 1968, 1973, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1988, 1993: Member for Corrèze: March–April 1967 (became Secretary of State in April 1967), re-elected in 1968, 1973, but he remained a minister in 1976–1986 (became prime mini
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1965· 1 entry
Became an auditor in the Court of Auditors
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1959· 1 entry
Studied at École nationale d'administration (1957–1959).
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1954· 1 entry
Chirac presented The Development of the Port of New-Orleans, a short geography/economic thesis to the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po—), which he had entered three years before
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1953· 2 entries
After graduating from the Sciences Po, he attended a non-credit course at Harvard University's summer school, before entering the École nationale d'administration, which trains France's top civil servants, in 1957
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Studied at Sciences Po (1951–1953).
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1950· 2 entries
Signed the Soviet-inspired Stockholm Appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons – which led him to be questioned when he applied for his first visa to the United States
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Studied at Lycée Louis-le-Grand (1950).
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1942· 1 entry
“France, on that day, committed the irreparable”
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-11-29.
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1898· 1 entry
He was the son of Abel François Marie Chirac (1898–1968), a successful executive for an aircraft company, and Marie-Louise Valette (1902–1973), a housewife.
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