President François Mitterrand, a Socialist, for example, was forced to cohabit with the neo-Gaullist ( right wing ) Jacques Chirac, who became his prime minister from 1986 to 1988.

Jacques Chirac was reelected in 2002, mainly because his socialist rival Lionel Jospin was defeated by the extreme right wing candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen.

As a young man, Grimoard became a Benedictine monk in the small Priory of Chirac, near his home, which was a dependency of the ancient Abbey of St. Victor near Marseille, and he was sent there for his novitiate.

After his profession of monastic vows, he was ordained a priest in his own monastery in Chirac.

President Chirac was first elected in 1995 and again in 2002.

At that time, there was no limit on the number of terms, so Chirac could have run again, but chose not to.

Chirac trained as a reserve military officer in armoured cavalry at Saumur, where he was ranked first in his year.

In April 1962, Chirac was appointed head of the personal staff of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou.

Although Chirac was well-situated in de Gaulle's entourage, being related by marriage to the general's sole companion at the time of the Appeal of 18 June 1940, he was more of a " Pompidolian " than a " Gaullist ".

On 27 February 1974, after the resignation of Raymond Marcellin, Chirac was appointed Minister of the Interior.

At the age of 41, Chirac stood out as the very model of the jeunes loups (" young wolves ") of French politics, but he was faced with the hostility of the " Barons of Gaullism " who considered him a traitor for his role during the previous presidential campaign.

Chirac was advised by Pierre Juillet and Marie-France Garaud, two former advisers of Pompidou.

However, a controversial judicial decision in 1999 granted Chirac immunity while he was president of France.

On 15 December 2011, Chirac was found guilty in two related cases, involving 19 totally or partially fake jobs created for his benefit by the RPR Party, which he led as Paris mayor from 1977 to 1995.

He was told by Mitterrand, before his death, that the latter had dined with Chirac before the election.

After 1981, the relationship between the two men became tense, with Giscard, even though he was in the same government coalition as Chirac, criticising Chirac's actions openly.

It has been said during other student crises that this event strongly affected Jacques Chirac, who was hereafter careful about possible police violence during such demonstrations ( i. e. maybe explaining part of the decision to " promulgate without applying " the First Employment Contract ( CPE ) after large student demonstrations against it ).

" Jacques Foccart, who had also co-founded the Gaullist Service d ' Action Civique ( SAC, dissolved by Mitterrand in 1982 ) 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.

While he still was mayor of Paris ( since 1977 ), Chirac went to Abidjan ( Côte d ' Ivoire ) where he supported President Houphouët-Boigny ( 1960 – 1993 ), although the latter was being called a " thief " by the local population.

François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac are the only Presidents to date who have served a full two terms ( 14 years for the former, 12 years for the latter ).

Saddam's only visit to a Western country took place in September 1975 when he met with his friend, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac in Paris, France.

Reacting to criticism, Chirac said, " You only have to look back at 1935 ... There were people then who were against France arming itself, and look what happened.

A total of 34 FN deputies entered the Assembly after the 1986 elections ( the only legislative elections held under proportional representation ), which were won by the right wing, bringing Jacques Chirac to Matignon in the first cohabitation government ( that is, the combination of a right-wing Prime minister, Chirac, with a socialist President, Mitterrand ).

Although many commentators were surprised at the time, and considered it to be an institutional crisis, some claiming the Fifth Republic could not accommodate itself of such rivalry at the head of the state, cohabitation repeated itself after the 1993 elections, when the RPR again won the elections, and then after the 1997 elections, when the Socialist Party won, leading to the constitution of Lionel Jospin's Plural Left government while Chirac was only at the beginning of his first presidential term.

But he did surprisingly well, leading the first round and losing only very narrowly to Jacques Chirac in the final runnoff election.

The French public appeared to have laid more of the blame on President Jacques Chirac, who allegedly said that " the only worse food than British food is Finnish " which is widely believed to have offended two Finnish members of the International Olympic Committee.

In the 2002 presidential election, the party split ; while Alain Madelin obtained only 3. 91 % of the votes, party's Vice-President Jean-Pierre Raffarin endorsed incumbent Jacques Chirac.

Chirac won reelection comfortably, with Bayrou being eliminated after the first round, having gained only 6. 8 % of the vote.

The run-off election provided voters with only a choice between the right-wing Chirac and the far-right Le Pen.

A state funeral followed on 16 June 2009 in Libreville which was attended by nearly two dozen African heads of state, including several of the continent's strongmen who themselves have ruled for decades, and by Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac — the current and former French presidents ( and the only Western heads of state to attend ).

Instead of informing the president's staff with reports directly concerning Chirac, Cousseran informed only Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin just as he was making it clear that he would run against Chirac in the 2002 presidential election.

René Coty, Vincent Auriol, Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, Jacques Chirac, and Nicolas Sarkozy are the only former presidents to have sat in the Council.

The hotel has hosted notable guests such as The Beatles, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Bill Clinton, Jacques Chirac, The King & Queen of Norway, The Duke & Duchess of Kent, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, Roger Moore, Joan Collins, Mick Jagger, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Deep Purple, Michael Palin, Hillary Clinton, Michelle, Barack Obama & Oprah Winfrey as well as professional cricket teams on tour.

* In 2006, the French newspaper L ' Est Républicain acquired an apparently leaked DGSE report to the French president Jacques Chirac claiming that Osama Bin Laden had died in Pakistan on August 23, 2006, after contracting typhoid fever.

Chirac wrote he considered firing Sarkozy before, and conceded responsibility in allowing Jean Marie Le Pen to advance in 2002.

In December 1978, six months before the European Parliament election, the Call of Cochin signed by Chirac denounced the appropriation of France by " the foreign party ," which sacrificed the national interests and the independence of the country in order to build a federal Europe.

After the 2002 French presidential election, in which far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen arrived second behind conservative candidate Jacques Chirac, many analysts put the blame of the surprising result on working class, accused of engaging themselves in " protest vote ", that is in support of fringe candidates belonging to the far-left or the far-right, or even to people who present themselves as alien to the political world ( in France, environmentalist René Dumont in 1974, comedian Coluche in 1981 — but he withdrew his candidacy before the elections — environmentalist Pierre Rabhi who unsuccessfully tried to present himself in 2002, as well as TV showman Nicolas Hulot who almost stood for the election for 2007, before putting aside his idea, thus leaving electoral space for José Bové, a figure of the alterglobalization movement who recently decided to present himself as an independent candidate ).

Hollande lost to Chirac in the first round, although he would go on to become a Special Adviser to the newly elected President Mitterrand, before serving as a staffer for Max Gallo, the government's spokesman.

Chirac refused to testify before investigating magistrate Éric Halphen, arguing that this would be incompatible with his presidential functions.

In March 2005, the case went to trial before the Paris correctional court On October 2005, former president of the Ile-de-France region Michel Giraud was condemned to four years of prison on probation and to pay an 80 000 euros fine ; Michel Roussin, former chief of staff of Jacques Chirac, was also condemned to four years of prison on probation and to a 50 000 euros fine.

* French president Jacques Chirac ’ s decision to run a nuclear test series at Mururoa in 1995, just one year before the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty was to be signed, caused worldwide protest, including an embargo of French wine.

French president Jacques Chirac ’ s decision to run a nuclear test series at Mururoa on on 5 September and 2 October 1995, just one year before the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty was to be signed, caused worldwide protest, including an embargo of French wine.

Former French president Jacques Chirac has chosen the Citroën C6 as his official car, and has been using a pre-series car before the model was introduced.

The latter attack, which occurred on June 18, 1999, was a result of the refusal, two days before, by the then French President Jacques Chirac to ratify the European Charter on Regional and Minority Languages.

He resigned as President of the National Assembly three months before the end of his tenure after he was appointed as President of the Constitutional Council by Chirac on 22 February 2007.

The development of the port of New-Orleans is a short geography / economic thesis presented in 1954 by Jacques Chirac ( former president of French republic ) to the Institut d ' Etudes Politiques de Paris ( Sciences Po ), which he had entered three years before.