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FORMER FRENCH PRESIDENT CHIRAC DIED AT 86 PEACEFULLY SURROUNDED WITH FAMILY

HE WAS THE MOST PREFERRED PRESIDENT


President Jacques Chirac (Source: INA)
Pdtt Jacques Chirac/Foundation for Peace & Culture
(Source: Chirac Foundation)
USPA NEWS - Former French President Jacques Chirac who rule France during twelve years, (1995 -2007) died on Thursday (September 26th), « peacefully and surrounded with his family » Chirac´s family said. He was 86 years old. President Macron, who had to cancel his trip to Rodez where he was going to hold a big debate on the pension reform, and took a decision, odd and unique, to open the Elysee Palace from tonight 9pm, to the French people to come during the whole week end, to sign a collection of condolences, a long queue is already started up to align outside the Presidential Elysee Palace.The current President Macron, made a solemn address at 8pm on the channel of Television, TF1 and announced that a national tribute will take place Monday at noon, for those of Jacques Chirac former President of the French Republic. Many people come tonight to the Elysée Palace, where a collection of condolences is available to pay tribute to the former president. Meanwhile, the Hotel de Ville, projects pictures of Jacques Chirac who was the mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, on a giant screen.

Jacques Chirac Simone Veil
Source: INA
Former French President Jacques Chirac who rule France during twelve years, (1995 -2007) died on Thursday (September 26th), « peacefully and surrounded with his family » Chirac´s family said. He was 86 years old. President Macron, who had to cancel his location in Rodez where he was going to hold a big debate on the pension reform, and took a decision, unique and unique, to open the Elysee to the French people to come during the whole week end, to sign a collection of condolences, a long queue is formed outside the presidential palace. The current President Macron, made a solemn address at 8pm on the channel of Television, TF1 and announced that a national tribute will take place Monday at noon, for those of Jacques Chirac former President of the French Republic. Many people come tonight to the Elysée Palace, where a collection of condolences is available to pay tribute to the former president. Meanwhile, the Hotel de Ville, projects pictures of Jacques Chirac who was the mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, on a giant screen.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anne Hidalgo current Mayor of Paris, announced, the extinction of the Eiffel Tower tonight in sign of mourning. On the other side of the Seine river, at the rue Tournon, 6th disctrict, the home of the Chirac family, dozens of people have gathered, often laying flowers, in tribute to their former President of the Republic, who "died here, of peaceful way around his. According to the official statement. The Macron couple also went to the home of Chirac, rue de Tournon, to take his family condolences, and to gather before the remains of the former head of state around 9:30 pm. Since the announcement of the death of the former head of state Jacques Chirac, a torrent of tributes emanating from foreign heads of state and and French politicians as well as friends and fans, arrive as soon as tweets, official announcements, relays via the media continue. The "Papa" President as the French called him and enjoyed a very great attachment by his people with 82% of sympathetic capital, seems already lacking to the French, regretting a Great statesman. Some even go so far as to say that he was the "Greatest President of the French Republic." Even if some media draw up "negative" reports on the two mandates of Jacques Chirac, the French, the plebiscite for his great humanism, benevolence, love of others and curiosity sharpening his gigantic culture of peoples and traditions.He will have left behind him, great laws, and advanced like that of the abortion brought by Simone Veil in 1974, the first rights attributed to the disabled, Act 2005, the cessation of military service in 1996, the refusal to go to war against Iraq in 2003, and the entry of the protection of the environment by a charter in the French constitution in 2002. After the end of his second term, in 2007, he created his foundation for Peace and Culture, and also left in his name the Museum of the First Arts (Africa, Oceania) of Quai Branly, with his initiative in 2006, and the entrance of Islamic Art at the Louvre Museum in 2012.
Jacques Chirac RIP
Source: TV Caption
JACQUES CHIRAC WAS A GREAT STATEMAN HIGKY RESPECTED AND A FINE STRATEGIST YET VERY CLOSE TO THE PEOPLE-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jacques Chirac is issued from Correze Region, and became later on a MP of this area, was deeply attached to his roots and to France, Jacques Chirac was undoubtedly the most popular President of the Fifth Republic. Jacques Chirac was most known for being very friendly, close to the people, even going so far as to be caricatured. Yet, Jacques Chirac was also a fine strategist ... and great French politician and proved to be a true statesman who has often known, in a hurry, to make decisions that have marked history. The channel Tv, M6 TV, broadcast tonight an exceptional document made by François-Xavier Dupouy, Jean-Marie Goix and Claire Oudinot C.Productions, (A 90-minute documentary by Jean-Marie Goix) proposing to storytell the life and the course of Jacques Chirac through 10 dates, 10 key moments that marked his life and that of the French. Neither exhaustive nor chronological this documentary shows us how much Jacques Chirac could be shown at the same time, funny, moving, angry ... A multifaceted man who has marked France and especially the French. Among the speakers, Roselyne Bachelot, Jean-Louis Debré, François Baroin, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Alain Duhamel, Edith Cresson, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Yves Lecoq ... They agreed to return to the highlights of a man's life that they loved, sometimes hated but still highly respected and admired.
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