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Jacques Chirac
Chirac in 1999
Preses o Fraunce
In office 17 Mey 1995 – 16 Mey 2007
Prime Meenister	See list Alain Juppé Lionel Jospin Jean-Pierre Raffarin Dominique de Villepin
Precedit bi	François Mitterrand
Succeedit bi	Nicolas Sarkozy
Co-Prince o Andorrae
In office 17 Mey 1995 – 16 Mey 2007
Prime Meenister	Marc Forné Molné Albert Pintat
Precedit bi	François Mitterrand
Succeedit bi	Nicolas Sarkozy
Prime Meenister o Fraunce
In office 20 Mairch 1986 – 10 Mey 1988
Preses	François Mitterrand
Precedit bi	Laurent Fabius
Succeedit bi	Michel Rocard
In office 27 Mey 1974 – 26 August 1976
Preses	Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Precedit bi	Pierre Messmer
Succeedit bi	Raymond Barre
Mayor o Paris
In office 20 Mairch 1977 – 16 Mey 1995
Precedit bi	Poseetion reestablished Jules Ferry (1871)
Succeedit bi	Jean Tiberi
Meenister o the Interior
In office 27 Februar 1974 – 28 Mey 1974
Preses	Georges Pompidou
Prime Meenister	Pierre Messmer
Precedit bi	Raymond Marcellin
Succeedit bi	Michel Poniatowski
Meenister o Agricultur
In office 7 Julie 1972 – 27 Februar 1974
Preses	Georges Pompidou
Prime Meenister	Pierre Messmer
Precedit bi	Michel Cointat
Succeedit bi	Raymond Marcellin
Meenister for Relations wi the Pairlament
In office 7 Januar 1971 – 5 Julie 1972
Preses	Georges Pompidou
Prime Meenister	Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Precedit bi	Roger Frey
Succeedit bi	Robert Boulin
Preses o Corrèze General Cooncil
In office 15 Mairch 1970 – 25 Mairch 1979
Precedit bi	Elie Rouby
Succeedit bi	Georges Debat
Personal details
Born	29 November 1932(1932-11-29) Paris, Fraunce
Dee'd	26 September 2019 (aged 86) Paris, Fraunce
Poleetical pairty	French Communist Pairty (1950s–1962) Union for the New Republic (1962–1968) Union o Democrats for the Republic (1968–1971) Rally for the Republic (1971–2002) Union for a Popular Movement (2002–present)
Spoose(s)	Bernadette de Courcel (1956–present)
Bairns	2 dauchters
Alma mater	Institute o Poleetical Studies, Paris Naitional Schuil o Admeenistration
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Signatur

Jacques René Chirac (/ʒɑːk ʃᵻˈræk/; French pronunciation: ​[ʒak ʃi.ʁak]; born 29 November 1932; dee'd 26 September 2019) wis a French politeecian that serrt as Preses o Fraunce frae 1995 til 2007. He serrt as Mayor o Paris an as Prime meenister o Fraunce aforehaun as weel.

Born the 29t November 1932 in the Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire clinic service (in Paris), Jacques René Chirac (as full name) son o Abel François Chirac (1898 - 1968), bank-employee an administrator in the Aeronautic societie SNCAN an o Marie-Louise Valette (1902 - 1973). Baith come frae Correzian families whilka hae affore probably participatit tae the French Revolution.

Young Jacques Chirac begins studyin in the Primary School o Sainte-Féréole in Correze frae 1940 tae 1943 affore gaun tae Paris, in the lycée (hie-schuil) Carnot an tae the prestidgious hie-schuil Louis-le-Grand. Efter his final exam, obtainit in 1950 in « elementary mathematics » wi mention « guid eneuch », he warks thrie months in a boat, the Capitaine Saint-Martin, altho his fither disagreed. In Fraunce again he maks a year o "Scientific Studies".

• He integrates in September 1951, the Poleetical Sciences Institute in Paris. He warks as diffusor o the French Communist Party wi Jean Bourgeois the editor. He sells "l'Humanité" (Humanity, French Communist Newspaper). He signs in 1950 the Stockholm Ca', agains nuclear airmin, o communist an humanist inspiration. Efter that he gangs study in the Unitit States he is diplomit o the "Summer school" (Simmer Schuil) o Harvard in 1952, an taks a year o chamage tae diskiver Americae.

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