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Former French President Valerie Giscard d’Estaing, who led the country from 1974 to 1981, died on the night of December 2.
Former French President Valerie Giscard d’Estaing, who led the country from 1974 to 1981, has died at the age of 94. Le Figaro reported on December 2.
According to the newspaper, he died on the night of December 2, surrounded by his family at his site in Auton en Loire-et-Cher (western France).
The information about the death of the former president was confirmed by radio Europa 1.
On September 14, d’Estaing was admitted to the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris.
Le Parisien newspaper reported that a lung infection was the reason for the politician’s hospitalization. D’Estaing was having difficulty breathing, the newspaper wrote.
The son of former president Louis Giscard d’Estaing, mayor of the Chamalieres commune, told France 3 on September 14 that his father was being examined and was “relatively in good shape for his age.”
Valerie Giscard d’Estaing was born on February 2, 1926 in French-occupied German territory in the city of Koblenz, where her father Edmond was then on a business trip. Before becoming president of France, d’Estaing served as finance minister. He became head of state after the death of French President Georges Pompidou.
