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...Ms Lagarde rose to chair its executive committee before leaving in 2005 to become a minister in the French government, under President Jacques Chirac....
...He worked briefly as the right-hand man to Alain Madelin when the latter became the first finance minister of Jacques Chirac’s presidency in 1995....
...A cousin of Bernadette Chirac, wife of the former president Jacques Chirac, one of his ancestors was made a hereditary baron for services rendered to the state by Napoleon III in 1867....
...He is part of the French establishment, a cousin of Bernadette Chirac, wife of the former president Jacques Chirac....
...It would then require approval by the state assembly before heading to the desk of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger....
...Before Editis was sold to Wendel by the Lagardère group for €660m in 2004 it aroused political passions as members of the former government of Jacques Chirac lambasted potential foreign predators as “asset-strippers...
...When they last met, Mr Sarkozy had just quit as finance minister, and Mr Bayrou was supporting Mr Chirac’s government as part of a centre-right parliamentary alliance....
...political immorality” and Mr Sarkozy complained the Socialist had “lost her nerve” as the debate – France’s first in 12 years – lived up to its promise of fireworks between the contenders to replace Jacques Chirac...
...But they fell out in the 1995 elections, when Mr Sarkozy backed Edouard Balladur’s campaign against Mr Chirac....
...He said the budget had grown nine-fold under Mr Chirac....
...Ms Royal can argue that she did better than Lionel Jospin, who in 2002 led the Socialists to a humiliating third place behind Jacques Chirac and far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen....
...A veteran French economist said on Monday: “The idea of Chirac standing again looks more unlikely every day.”...
...“Chirac built a party – the UMP – for Juppé and Sarkozy stole it,” says Mr Lellouche. “Chirac invented Villepin to kill Sarkozy, but again he showed his incredible power of endurance.”...
...After 25 years of alternating left- and rightwing governments under presidents François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac, the French are fed up with their leaders....
...His replacement as interior minister is François Baroin, a close ally of Mr Chirac....
...Mr Sarkozy, a former mayor of the plush Paris suburb of Neuilly, does not share Mr Chirac’s attachment to farmers....
...Ms Royal said the presidential budget had expanded by 798 per cent between Mr Chirac’s first election in 1995 and the final year of his mandate in 2006....
...“The fall is always a bit sad,” Mrs Chirac is reported to say, as she comes close to tears. “Yes, I will miss this house a lot , but I will adapt....
...“We thought the Chirac presidency was over and it was what Mr Sarkozy doubtless called ‘a rupture’ but I see that it is more a question of continuity,” he said, referring to outgoing president Jacques Chirac...
...On Monday he won the official backing of Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister and protégé of Jacques Chirac, the outgoing president....
...Mr Chirac refused to attend Sunday’s event or send a message of support....
...A rising number of Chirac allies have been taking jobs outside the Elysée palace, or switching their support to Nicolas Sarkozy, who was on Sunday anointed as the presidential candidate of Mr Chirac’s ruling...
...It sparked huge protests and an appeal among socialists to vote for their old adversary Jacques Chirac, who won by a landslide in the second round run-off....
...As Dominique Strauss Kahn, the former Socialist finance minister who served in Mr Chirac’s first term, said: “Chirac has more qualities to conquer power than to exercise it.”...
...The outgoing government of president Jacques Chirac made a similar promise on class action lawsuits but ran out of time....
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