Word: chanonat
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Reality came crashing down on Giscard at 6:30 p.m. on election Sunday with the insistent ringing of a telephone at the family's chateau de Varvasse in the village of Chanonat (pop. 850). Campaign Manager Jean-François Deniau had some bad tidings: early computer projections showed Giscard a loser by 4%. (The final official tally: 15,714,598, or 51.76%, for Mitterrand; 14,647,787, or 48.24%, for Giscard.) By 8:20 p.m., shortly after the results were made public, the Elysçe released a terse statement in which Giscard expressed his "wishes"-nothing warmer...
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