Thursday 3 December 2020

Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Who Struggled to Transform France, Dies at 94

As a conservative president and a descendant of nobility, he sought to make government more responsive to the people but was thwarted by an economic slowdown, demographic shifts and an imperious bearing. He died of Covid-19.

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