In 2006, The Economist wrote that Chirac " is the most unpopular occupant of the Elysée Palace in the fifth republic's history.

As a twenty-year-old, former French president Jacques Chirac also wrote a translation which was never published.

Along with other members of Congress, he wrote a letter of protest to President Jacques Chirac, while longtime MEK supporters such as Sheila Jackson-Lee, Democrat of Texas, criticized Maryam Radjavi's arrest.

During a 2006 libel action he brought against Philippe Karsenty, who alleges the incident was staged by protesters ( see below ), Enderlin submitted a letter from Chirac, who wrote in flattering terms of his integrity.

British Labour MPs Jim Murphy and Gwyneth Dunwoody wrote to French President Jacques Chirac that asking that Bernard either resign or be removed from his position.

In the 1970s, regulars from the pub, the Noel Arms wrote to the then Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac proposing the link and with a tight deadline for a response.

On August 31, French officials expressed their condolences to their American counterparts: President Jacques Chirac wrote a letter to President George W. Bush, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Philippe Douste-Blazy, wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Pompidou considered Chirac his protégé, and referred to him as " my bulldozer " for his skill at getting things done.

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.

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.

* Nicolas Sarkozy is elected President of France in 2007 succeeding Jacques Chirac, who had held the position for 12 years.

Chirac broke at that time with a number of friends and allies, including Charles Pasqua, Nicolas Sarkozy, etc., who supported Balladur's candidacy.

In Volume 2 of his memoirs published in June 2011, Chirac mocked his successor Nicolas Sarkozy as " irritable, rash, impetuous, disloyal, ungrateful, and un-French ".

Paris has long trained the French and international political and economic elite: specifically the three immediate past French presidents ( Nicolas Sarkozy, Jacques Chirac and François Mitterrand ), thirteen past or present French prime ministers, twelve past or present foreign heads of state or government, and a former United Nations Secretary-General.

The unpopularity with the electorate of Jacques Chirac and Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government led most members of the UMP to support Nicolas Sarkozy, a rival of Chirac.

On the issues, the party under Sarkozy publicly disapproved of Turkey's proposed membership in the European Union, which Chirac had previously endorsed several times publicly, and generally took a more right-wing position.

For example, in the Alpes-Maritimes, Sarkozy performed 21. 6 % better than Chirac did in 2002 while Le Pen lost 12. 6 % in five years.

While former President Jacques Chirac, the right's strongman in normally left-wing Corrèze had always done very well in Corrèze and the surrounding departments, Sarkozy did very poorly and actually lost the department in the 2007 runoff.

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 ).

Sciences Po alumni and former staff include twenty-eight heads of state or government, specifically three of the last four French presidents ( François Hollande, Jacques Chirac and François Mitterrand ; the fourth one, Nicolas Sarkozy, also attended Sciences Po but failed to graduate, dropping out after flunking his English classes, thirteen past or present French prime ministers, twelve past or present foreign heads of state or government, a former United Nations Secretary-General, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, the former head of the European Central Bank and the former head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

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

Faithful to President Chirac, he frequently criticized UMP leader Nicolas Sarkozy.

Rivals of Sarkozy, such as Jacques Chirac and Dominique de Villepin, made it a point that no amendments were made to the law.

Chirac was an only child ( his elder sister, Jacqueline, died in infancy before his birth ), and was educated in Paris at the Lycée Carnot and at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.

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

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.

However, on 16 July 1995, president Jacques Chirac, in a speech, recognized the responsibility of the French State, and in particular of the French police which organized the Vel'd ' Hiv Roundup ( Rafle du Vel'd ' Hiv ) of July 1942, for seconding the " criminal folly of the occupying country ".

Chirac took responsibility for domestic policy while the President focused on his " reserved domain " – foreign affairs and defense policy.

The International Association of the French-speaking Mayors ( Official Website ) was created in Quebec City in 1979 on the initiative of Jean Pelletier and Jacques Chirac, then the respective mayors of Quebec City and Paris.

His predecessors were Jean Tiberi ( 1995 – 2001 ), and Jacques Chirac ( 1977 – 95 ), who resigned after 18 years as mayor when he was elected president of France.

In 1975, he purchased from Jean Prouvost the great conservative newspaper le Figaro ( with the help of Pierre Juillet and Marie-France Garaud, then adviser of Jacques Chirac ), in 1976 the popular daily France-Soir, and in 1980 acquired " L ' Aurore " from the estate of Marcel Boussac.

In February 2005, investigating magistrate Armand Riberolles, who succeeded Halphen, abandoned charges against Jean Tiberi ( who succeeded Chirac as mayor of Paris ), who as former president of the OPAC ( Office Public d ' Aménagement et de Construction ) of Paris, was prosecuted for " complicity in corruption " ( complicité de traffic d ' influence ).