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person_profile-Jacques Chirac

Jacques Chirac Died at age: 86

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jacques Chirac

Date of Birth:

Nov 29, 1932

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Sep 26, 2019

Biography of

Jacques Chirac

    Jacques René Chirac (29 November 1932 – 26 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. Chirac was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988, as well as the Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.

    After attending the École nationale d'administration, Chirac began his career as a high-level civil servant, entering politics shortly thereafter. Chirac occupied various senior positions, including Minister of Agriculture and Minister of the Interior. In 1981 and 1988, he unsuccessfully ran for President as the standard-bearer for the conservative Gaullist party Rally for the Republic. Chirac's internal policies initially included lower tax rates, the removal of price controls, strong punishment for crime and terrorism, and business privatisation. After pursuing these policies in his second term as Prime Minister, he changed his views. He argued for different economic policies and was elected president in the 1995 presidential election with 52.6% of the vote in the second round, beating Socialist Lionel Jospin, after campaigning on a platform of healing the "social rift" (fracture sociale). Then, Chirac's economic policies, based on dirigisme, allowing for state-directed investment, stood in opposition to the laissez-faire policies of the United Kingdom under the ministries of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, which Chirac described as "Anglo-Saxon ultraliberalism".

    He was also known for his stand against the American-led invasion of Iraq, his recognition of the collaborationist French Government's role in deporting Jews, and his reduction of the presidential term from 7 years to 5 through a referendum in 2000. At the 2002 French presidential election, he won 82.2% of the vote in the second round against the far-right candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen. During his second term, however, he had a very low approval rating and was considered one of the least popular presidents in modern French political history.

    In 2011, the Paris court declared Chirac guilty of diverting public funds and abusing public confidence, giving him a two-year suspended prison sentence.

    Jacques René Chirac was born on 29 November 1932 in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. He was the son of Abel François Marie Chirac (1898–1968), a successful executive for an aircraft company, and Marie-Louise Valette (1902–1973), a housewife. His grandparents were all teachers from Sainte-Féréole in Corrèze. His great-grandparents on both sides were peasants in the rural south-western region of the Corrèze.

    According to Chirac, his name "originates from the langue d'oc, that of the troubadours, therefore that of poetry". He was a Catholic.

    Chirac was an only child (his elder sister, Jacqueline, died in infancy nearly ten years before his birth). He was educated in Paris at the Cours Hattemer, a private school. He then attended the Lycée Carnot and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. After his baccalauréat, behind his father's back he went off to serve for three months as a sailor on a coal-transport.

    Chirac played rugby union for Brive's youth team, and also played at university level. He played no. 8 and second row. At age 18, his ambition was to become a ship's captain. ...

    Source: Article "Jacques Chirac" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Jacques Chirac

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Filmography of

Jacques Chirac

Found 29 Movies in total

... 2024

Mohammed VI - The Limits of Power

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2022

In France with Madonna

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2022

Cent jours

Self ( Actor )

... 2022

... 2022

Mitterrand et la télé

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

10 mai 1981 : Changer la vie ?

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

Lebanon in Crisis

Self - Politician (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

Nicotine - A Drug with a Future

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

30 Years of Democracy

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2019

Mon Chirac

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2019

Mr & Mme Adelman

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2017

King of Morocco, the secret reign

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2016

Sanctuary

Self - Politician (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2015

Pierre Mazeaud, La Vie En Face(s)

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2013

The New Watchdogs

Self ( Actor )

... 2012

Sarah's Key

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2010

Modern Life

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2008

Chirac

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2006

Being Jacques Chirac

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2006

Celsius 41.11

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2004

One of Many

Self ( Actor )

... 2004

... 2002

Taxi 2

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2000

... 1999

... 1998

Christo in Paris

Self ( Actor )

... 1990

Islands

Self ( Actor )

... 1987

Reporters

Self ( Actor )

... 1981