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Several hours after the attack French President Jacques Chirac ordered the destruction of the Ivorian air force and the seizure of Yamoussoukro airport.
France immediately severely denounced the coup, and backed by the 1978 defense agreement with the Comoros, President Jacques Chirac ordered his special forces to retake the island.
In February 2004 Edmund Stoiber became a candidate of Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder for the presidency of the European Commission but he decided not to run for this office.
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.
Among those in the picture are Monarchy of Belgium | King Albert II of Belgium | Albert II of the Belgians, U. S. President George W. Bush, President of the French Republic | French President Jacques Chirac, President of the Philippines | Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of Estonia | Estonian President Arnold Rüütel, and President of Portugal | Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio.
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.
At the end of his second term Jacques Chirac chose not to run again at the age of 74.
In an attempt to soothe public ire, Pei took a suggestion from then-mayor of Paris Jacques Chirac and placed a full-sized cable model of the pyramid in the courtyard.
* 1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a " definitive end " to French nuclear weapons testing.
* 2002 – French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
President Jacques Chirac finally had no choice but to repeal it.
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 ).
This device has been used in recent years by both François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac.
In the 2002 French presidential election, the two contenders described by the media as having the possibility to win were Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin, who represented the largest two political parties in France at the time.
* Jacques Chirac 19. 88 %
* Jacques Chirac 82. 21 %
In the event, the public's discontent with the law compelled President Jacques Chirac to publicly oppose it, and his own UMP majority, who approved the law ; defying such historical revisionism, he said, " In a Republic, there is no official history.
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.
Right-wing incumbent Jacques Chirac places first.
French President Jacques Chirac stood alone beside Arafat's coffin for about ten minutes in a last show of respect for Arafat, whom he hailed as " a man of courage ".
* Nicolas Sarkozy is elected President of France in 2007 succeeding Jacques Chirac, who had held the position for 12 years.
** President Jacques Chirac announces a " definitive end " to French nuclear testing.
** Jacques Chirac is elected president of France
* June 13 – French President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.

Jacques and assumed
Although Nelson's biographer Ernle Bradford assumed in 1977 that the remains of Orient " are almost certainly unrecoverable ", the first archaeological investigation into the battle began in 1983, when a French survey team under Jacques Dumas discovered the wreck of the French flagship.
Jacques Pierre Brissot ( 15 January 1754 – 31 October 1793 ), who assumed the name of de Warville, was a leading member of the Girondist movement during the French Revolution.
In 1938, while he was a student at the Sorbonne Mercader befriended Sylvia Ageloff, a confidante of Trotsky in Paris, and assumed the identity Jacques Mornard, supposedly the son of a Belgian diplomat.
The conservative President Jacques Chirac assumed office May 17, 1995, after a campaign focused on the need to combat France's stubbornly high unemployment rate.
In 1705 he assumed the ecclesiastical habit, in 1719 entered the order of Oratorians, and soon afterwards was named canon of St Jacques l ' Hôpital.
During 1959, Mario Bava had assumed the directorial assignment of The Giant of Marathon from Jacques Tourneur, who left the production before most of the major sequences had been filmed.

Jacques and office
: Jacques ( Foley ) and François ( McDonald ) are colonial-era French trappers who paddle a canoe through the cube farm of an office building in a modern-day city, hunting businessmen and women for their pelts ( their expensive designer suits ).
During his first two years in office, President Jacques Chirac's prime minister was Alain Juppé, who served contemporaneously as leader of Chirac's neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ).
He was the only surviving ex-president since he left office until the end of Jacques Chirac's term on 16 May 2007, with the exception of a brief period between François Mitterrand's retirement in 1995 and death in early 1996.
On 15 May 2007, the last full day of President Jacques Chirac's term, Villepin tendered his resignation from the office of Prime Minister and it was accepted by the President.
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors ( born 20 July 1925 ) is a French economist and politician, the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office ( between January 1985 and December 1994 ).
This included reading numerous biographies and books about architecture, and working as an unpaid typist in the office of architect Ely Jacques Kahn.
Dominique Malacrino talked about the " numerous phone calls of Jacques Foccart, then responsible for the African office at the Elysée palace " to Bob Denard.
The PS also formed several figures who acted or have acted at the international level: Jacques Delors, who was the eighth President of the European Commission from 1985 to 1994 and the first person to serve three terms in that office, was from the Socialist Party, as well as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 2007 to 2011, and Pascal Lamy, who has been Director-General of the World Trade Organization since 2005.
By contrast, his successor Jacques Chirac lived throughout his two terms in office ( 1995 – 2007 ) in the Élysée apartments with his wife Bernadette.
BMO maintains its official legal corporate head office in Montreal, located on Saint Jacques Street.
The same day, Jacques Brassard, the parliamentary leader of the government at the time, answered also in an open letter to the newspapers, that the motion was not against Yves Michaud himself, but on his comments made as a public person seeking office in the government.
He earned election to the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg for the first time in 1984 and immediately took the office of Minister for Labour under Jacques Santer.
* 1994-Quebec general election: The Parti Québécois elected to office, led by Jacques Parizeau.
On 18 November 2004, Farage announced in the European Parliament that Jacques Barrot, the French Commissioner designate, had been barred from elected office in France for 2 years, after being convicted in 2000 of embezzling £ 2 million from government funds and diverting it into the coffers of his party.
He did not re-enter the public service until the period of the First French Empire, when the arch-chancellor Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès used his influence with Napoleon I to procure for him the office of maître des requêtes to the Conseil d ' État.
Remaining in hockey following the end of his playing career, Nieuwendyk joined the Florida Panthers ' front office as a consultant to general manager Jacques Martin in 2007.
The object of the journey was to obtain through Jacques Necker, who had just returned to office, an unrestricted restoration of Genevese liberty, by cancelling the treaty of guarantee between France and Switzerland, which prevented the republic from enacting new laws without the consent of the parties to this treaty.
After the 2004 Canadian election the portfolio was cut loose as an autonomous office, the Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, and given to Jacques Saada.
On March 12, 2012 the State Ethics Commission charged Jacques with violating Massachusetts ' conflict-of-interest law after she allegedly tried to use her clout as a judge to have a dentist office reduce her brother-in-law ’ s bill.
Since 1925, only three individuals have held the office of mayor, Georges Marrane, Jacques Laloë, and Pierre Gosnat, all of which have been Communist Party members.
This, in essence, ensured that Jacques Chirac would not face criminal charges until he left office.
Although the then-new head office of the Royal Bank of Canada at 360 Saint Jacques Street in Montreal was taller by several floors, the Sun Life Building was at the time the largest building in square footage anywhere in the British Empire.

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