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...Antoinette from the French throne. Eleven years later, under Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, it became a military academy. Now, although its students still attend formals in uniform, it is the number one school in France, and grooms leaders for careers in science, business, and politics. Former President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing is a Polytechnicien, as were auto baron André Citroën and scientists Siméon Poisson, Augustin Fresnel, Henri Becquerel, and Henri Pointcaré. Each year, the top five hundred science and economics students in France join the community in Palaiseau, and after graduation...
...Joffrin isn't the only pundit who has lamented Sarkozy's star-struck flashiness in an office formerly characterized by the monumental solemnity of Charles de Gaulle, the intellectual loftiness exhibited by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand, and the less formal yet dignified detachment of Jacques Chirac. The French media has wryly covered Sarkozy's open affection for celebrities like iconic rock star Johnny Hallyday, popular comic actor Christian Clavier, and the subtly named Doc Gyneco - a rapper whose dwindling popularity and fan base further shrunk when he announced his support for Sarkozy...
...Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, one of Europe’s most important politicians, expressed in his personal blog that having one person with Europe’s foreign mandate would answer Henry Kissinger’s famous question: “Who do I call if I want to call Europe?” This relates closely with the true raison d’être for the EU in the first place: keeping the old continent relevant in the modern world...
...Giscard d'Estaing achieved a rare victory from that middle ground in 1974. Now, once again, says Bayrou, "there are millions of French people who want out of the perpetual confrontation between the left and the right." The candidate is traveling through Normandy to a rally in Evreux. When he's not out campaigning, Bayrou likes to unwind driving one of his tractors. That machine would come in handy for uprooting the nation's two largest parties, which he compares to "big trees that have become rotten inside...
...newsweekly. A devout reformist, Servan-Schreiber used L'Express to champion French decolonization and to back politicians who promised change. In 1970 Servan-Schreiber struck out into politics on his own-winning legislative and regional seats-and in 1974 briefly served as Reform Minister under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...