Friends and Foes Mark the End of Chirac Era
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French President Jacques Chirac's announcement that he will leave frontline politics brought no end to the controversy over his record and legacy on Monday.Comment
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Last Wednesday, on the the eve of Armistice Day, President Jacques Chirac presided over a moving ceremony in Les Invalides, the hospice-cum-church-cum-museum in central Paris which is the French militarys ...
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President Nicholas Sarkozy might have just got re-married, but his love affair with the French electorate appears well and truly over.
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French President Jacques Chirac was ending a fence-mending but at times edgy state visit to Britain Friday with a question-and-answer session with students at Oxford University.
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Jacques Chirac has officiated at the traditional July 14 military procession in central Paris, on what is almost certainly his last Bastille Day as president.
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PARIS - French President Jacques Chirac announced on Sunday he would not seek a third term in office, confirming widespread expectations that he would end a 45 year career in politics after elections in ...Comment
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PARIS In a move that could change the face of French politics, Nicolas Sarkozy, the popular finance minister whose personal and ideological differences with President Jacques Chirac are well known, took over the helm of the governing center-right party on
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France's popular president leads national day celebrations with several breaks with tradition.
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PARIS - French President Jacques Chirac announced on Sunday he would not seek re-election next month, bowing out of frontline politics after a 45-year career that ...Comment
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Jacques Chirac, admired and scorned during 12 years as France's president, announced Sunday he will not seek a third term in elections this spring &#151; a widely expected move given his low popularity, his age and a conservative rival who has siphoned off his political base.
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Jacques Chirac, admired and scorned during 12 years as president of France, leaves a legacy as mixed and ambiguous as the man himself.Comment
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President Nicholas Sarkozy might have  just got re-married, but his love affair with the French  electorate appears well and truly over.
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HervÃ© Gaymard, France&#39;s agriculture minister and an ally of President Jacques Chirac, yesterday became the finance minister after Nicolas Sarkozy left to pursue presidential ambitions.
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Paris -- The tone was a stark contrast to years of rancor. &quot;Dear George,&quot; began the congratulatory letter faxed to the White House Wednesday by French President Jacques Chirac, President Bush&#39;s most bitter critic in Europe.
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French President Jacques Chirac strode energetically into his last formal European summit on Thursday championing the role of nuclear power in the fight against climate change.Comment
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The Yanks are leaving &#151; and many French didn't even realize they were here. The last U.S. military contingent in France said adieu to the country on Friday with a fittingly low-key ceremony. With European forces taking over peacekeeping in Bosnia, the Americans are being redeployed elsewhere, thus ending a chapter of unsung cooperation between Paris and Washington.
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The French president hails the "true friendship" with the UK,  but mentions "differences" over Iraq as his visit ends.