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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing promised to bring "change" to France. So far, at least, he is delivering. In a carefully staged show of disdain for the pomp of the Gaullist years, he walked rather than rode to his inauguration at the Elysée Palace, wore a...
Other eyebrow-raising innovations are coming, including Giscard's plans for this week's inauguration ceremony at the Elysée. Male guests were asked to leave their striped pants at home and come in ordinary business suits. Giscard, who will be wearing a suit instead of the...
The question is whether Giscard will be able to keep those currents flowing with him after he settles in at the Elysée. For a man who has been in public life for so long, he is, apart from his fiscal views, a surprisingly unknown quantity. Some political analysts...
Such flamboyant exposure of a candidate's family has been unheard of in France, but it will not be the only precedent broken by the Giscards. For example, Anne-Aymone has made no secret of her reluctance to move into the forbidding Elysée Palace, official home of...
THE RAGUINS, Pierre and France, almost define the good life that young Parisians aspire to. Pierre, 35, is a successful urban development consultant with an income of $22,000. France, 32, is a part-time decorator who earns more than $6,000 a year. They live in a handsome but...