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Finance Minister, Giscard always seemed to be a cold, remote bureaucrat. But he set the country on its ear at his very first presidential press conference, declaring: "I aim first of all to dust off the republic." That is precisely what he has done. From his low-keyed inauguration and...
After two years of a dying President who kept himself secluded from the public, the French suddenly found Giscard everywhere. He went to a movie with his daughter, took his son to dinner at a small bistro in Les Halles, slipped out of the Elysée Palace ("this prison...
Throughout his election campaign last spring, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing repeatedly said that he hoped to bring a more relaxed style to the French presidency. During an hour-long interview at the Elysée Palace last week with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, Chief...
An old wisecrack about France's prestigious civil service academy, L'Ecole Nationale d'Administration, has two graduating students bidding each other goodbye in the Paris courtyard, when one says to the other: "See you at the Elysée Palace in 20 years." That is no...
After the student-worker upheavals of 1968, Chirac conducted some of the tricky negotiations with union leaders on labor reforms that ended the crisis. When Pompidou moved to the Elysée, he brought his bulldozer into the Cabinet as Agriculture Minister and later Interior Minister. Several years ago, Chirac...