In 2003 the medal was awarded to Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing.

* 1926 – Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, French politician

Even the relationship with France improved, after the election of Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing as president, trade increased and the two countries exchanged diplomatic visits.

Helmut Schmidt, left, with French President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing ( 1977 )

Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing relied heavily on this provision to stalemate Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac's attempt to bring him back under Gaullist control.

Some sources report that president Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing sent Michel Poniatowski to Tehran to propose to the Shah the elimination of Khomeini.

* January 31 – The Centre Georges Pompidou is officially opened by French President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing.

* February 2 – Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, President of France

* April 26 – French presidential election: A first-round runoff results between Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing and François Mitterrand

Then, as state secretary of economy ( 1968 – 1971 ), he worked closely with Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, who headed the ministry of economy and finance.

In 1978, he attacked the pro-European policy of Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing ( VGE ), 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 Pompidou.

* Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, Le pouvoir et la vie, tome 3

Valéry Giscard d ’ Estaing, President of the European Convention

Former French President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing was appointed Chairman, former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato and former Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene were appointed Vice-Chairmen.

His good relations with Western politicians, especially France's Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing and West Germany's Helmut Schmidt, were a catalyst for his receiving western aid and loans.

This was confirmed publicly by Helmut Schmidt in 1984, after Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing revealed the fact to journalists, apparently with Schmidt's assent.

Together with the French President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, he was one of the fathers of the world economic summits, the first of which assembled in 1975.

Schmidt with Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing ( 1977 ) Schmidt numbered the assassinated Egyptian president Anwar as-Sadat among his particular friends from the world of politics, and sustains his friendship with ex-president Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing of France.

At the Guadelupe Conference, 1979left to right: Helmut Schmidt, Jimmy Carter, Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, James Callaghan.

It is named after Georges Pompidou, the President of France from 1969 to 1974 who decided its creation, and was officially opened on 31 January 1977 by President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing.

In 1971, then-Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing paid a visit to Zaire ; later, after becoming President, he would develop a close personal relationship with President Mobutu, and became one of the regime's closest foreign allies.

* Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing's Independent Republicans

* 1871 – Paul Valéry, French poet ( d. 1945 )

* Michel Philippon, " Un Souvenir d ' enfance de Paul Valéry ", Éditions InterUniversitaires, 1996

** Paul Valéry, French poet ( d. 1945 )

After Pompidou's sudden death, Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing managed to overhaul the remaining Gaullist barons — with the help of Jacques Chirac —, and won the subsequent election against François Mitterrand on the left.

Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d ' Estaing (; born 2 February 1926 ) is a French centre-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981., he is a member of the Constitutional Council of France.

A European Convention was founded shortly afterward which was chaired by former French President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing and composed of two Members of Parliament ( generally one from the governing majority and one from the opposition ) of each Member State and applicant state, 16 MEPs, 2 members of the European Commission and a representative from each government.

Its present-day successor universities are the University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier 2 University and Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III.

* Schollaert, Valéry ; Willem, Gilles ( 2000 ) Taxonomy of the Peregrine Falco peregrinus / Barbary Falcon F. ( peregrinus ) pelegrinoides complex in Morocco Bulletin of the African Bird Club 7 ( 2 ): 101-103

* Marie Adélaïde Marthe Bachasson de Montalivet ( Paris, 9 October 1844-Paris, 2 August 1914 ), married in Saint-Bouize on 19 June 1865 Georges Marie René Picot ( Paris, 24 December 1838-Allevard, Isère, 16 August 1909 ), son of Charles Picot ( Orléans, 4 August 1795-Paris, 31 January 1870 ) and wife Henriette Bidois ( Paris, 1799-Paris, 19 November 1862 ), and had issue ; they are the great-grandparents in female line of Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing .< ref >

Jean Sauvagnargues ( 2 April 1915, Paris – 6 August 2002 ) was a French politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing from 1974 to 1976 and was Ambassador to Ethiopia, Tunisia, West Germany and the United Kingdom

He married in Saint-Bouize on June 19, 1865 with Marie Adélaïde Marthe Bachasson de Montalivet ( Paris, October 9, 1844-Paris, August 2, 1914 ), daughter of Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet and a great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard ( 1740-1769 ), and by whom he had seven children, the third of which was the diplomat François Georges-Picot, being the fifth, a daughter, the maternal grandmother of Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing .< ref >

Simone Veil, DBE (; born 13 July 1927 ) is a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France.

83 ( July – December 1927 ) Conrad Aiken, Paul Cézanne, Malcolm Cowley, Hart Crane, e. e. cummings, André Derain, Marie Laurencin, D. H. Lawrence, Raymond Mortimer, Pablo Picasso, Bertrand Russell, Leo Stein, Charles Trueblood, Paul Valéry, Vincent van Gogh, William Butler Yeats

* 1954 – François Valéry, French singer-songwriter and composer

The second French school was Symbolism, which literary historians see beginning with the poet Charles Baudelaire ( 1861 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal, 1857 ), and including the later poets, Arthur Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ), Paul Verlaine ( 1844 – 96 ), Stéphane Mallarmé ( 1842 – 98 ), and Paul Valéry ( 1871 – 1945 ).

Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945 ) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher.

* July 20 – Paul Valéry, French poet ( b. 1871 )

* Valéry Inkijinoff – French actor

* Paul Valéry ( 1871 – 1945 )

* Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing – Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs

* Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing ( 1988 – 1996 )

* Paul Valéry ( 1871 – 1945 ), author and poet of the Symbolist school

* ... Economy and Finance – Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing

* 19 January 1962 – Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing succeeds Baumgartner as Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs.

In 1932, the office's title was changed to Minister of National Education, although it was briefly changed back in 1940 – 1941, and was renamed Minister of Education during the Presidency of Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing ( 1974 – 1981 ).

* La France Byzantine, ou, Le triomphe de la littérature pure: Mallarmé, Gide, Proust, Valéry, Alain Giraudoux, Suarès, les Surréalistes: essai d ' une psychologie originelle du littérateur – 1945