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Former French President Valerie Giscard d’Estaing passed away last night due to “complications” from COVID-19 while at her residence in Loire-et-Cher, the family of the deceased politician clarified.
His funeral
“His condition had deteriorated and he died of complications from COVID-19,” the family said in a press release sent to AFP.
“As was his wish, his funeral will be held in a close family circle,” according to the family and the Foundation that bears his name.
The former center-right president, who was born in 1926 in Koblenz, Germany and rose to fame in France in 1974, was admitted to a hospital in the western French city of Tours in September for respiratory problems.
#BREAK Former French President Giscard d’Estaing dies, entourage says pic.twitter.com/9GRWVDS9Jy
– AFP news agency (@AFP) December 2, 2020
He recovered but was admitted to the hospital again in mid-November.
Was born in germany
Valerie Giscard d’Estaing was born in 1926 in Koblenz, Germany, where her father served as the chief financial officer for the French occupation authorities after the First World War. The d’Esten family comes from the south-central region of Auvergne with their own tower on the Chamelier.
She graduated from Sally’s Lyceum Johnson in Paris. During his youth he served in the armor of the Free French Army. After his studies at the Grande Ecole – ENA, he graduated from the Polytechnic School, graduated sixth in a row and was appointed Financial Inspector.
With the Independent Republican Party he was elected a member of the French National Assembly.
Modernization
In 1959 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance and three years later Minister of Finance of France at the age of 36 and went down in history as the youngest French Minister of Finance.
He clashed with the orthodox Goleys over issues of private initiative, the European Union, and closer ties with the United States. That is why he was fired by de Gaulle.
From 1974 to 1981 he was president of the French Republic, following a center-right policy. During his presidency, he promoted the modernization of French society by imposing consensual divorce and legalizing abortions, and was one of the architects of European integration.
During his tenure in high office, France stabilized as the second largest economy in Europe and the fourth in the world.
France – Germany relations
Like Charles de Gaulle, he promoted the strengthening of Franco-German relations but, unlike de Gaulle, supported the accession of Great Britain to the (then) EEC.
In 1981 he lost the elections to François Mitterrand and, at the same time, Jacques Chirac, his former prime minister, divided the conservative faction against him.
After an unfavorable period, he began to regain his previous influence and proposed the immediate election of the president of the European Community, hoping to be promoted to this position.
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