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...less rude was Brezhnev's decision to pay an unscheduled visit to Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris and Giscard's Gaullist archrival. Rather pettily, Giscard had planned to ignore Chirac, but the cunning mayor wrote Brezhnev asking him to stop by. Brezhnev was only too happy to accommodate Chirac, embarrass Giscard and do a little meddling in French politics. Gaullist officials gleefully celebrated their political victory. "The principle has been established." crowed one. "Now Chirac will see every visiting chief of state...
...Cabinet was not the new faces but the missing ones. Gone were three ministers who represented the principal political groups in the coalition: Independent Republican Michel Poniatowski, an outspoken crony of Giscard's who was Minister of the Interior; Centrist Jean Lecanuet, Minister of Planning; and Gaullist Olivier Guichard, Justice Minister. The three are expected to turn their attention to preparing next year's campaign at the grass-roots level. Although six portfolios changed hands, not altered were the key ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense and Finance (which Barre continues to hold...
...Gaullists were not altogether happy either. The new government does not include a single close ally of Jacques Chirac, the newly elected mayor of Paris who trounced Michel d'Ornano, Giscard's personal choice for the job. Giscard did his best to gloss over this humiliating loss. When Chirac was formally presented at the Elysée as "Monsieur le Maire de Paris," the President graciously responded, "Et cher ami" (and dear friend). Later Chirac tried to cool tempers at a meeting of Gaullist parliamentarians, many of whom had been openly derisive of Giscard. "We will be loyal...
...Mans and St.-Etienne. This gives the left control of 153 of France's 221 cities of that size. "It's double what we had aimed for," said jubilant Socialist Leader François Mitterrand. Almost as painful for Giscard was the election, as expected, of Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac as mayor of Paris; the President's own candidate did not even win a seat on the capital's city council...
Drained Votes. Now Giscard's most serious potential rival on the right, Chirac had accused the President of a "soft" attitude toward the left. A bold tactician, Chirac set out to revitalize a Gaullist party that had fallen into disarray and to woo workers from the left. In Paris, Chirac was helped by lackluster opposition candidates for the mayoralty and by a strong showing of candidates running on an ecology platform, who drained votes from the left. In the provinces, however, many of his close political allies were defeated. "Chirac stands like a white knight in Paris," observed...