Jacques Chirac
| Jacques Chirac | |
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| President of France | |
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In office 17 May 1995 – 16 May 2007 |
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| Prime Minister |
Alain Juppé Lionel Jospin Jean-Pierre Raffarin Dominique de Villepin |
| Preceded by | François Mitterrand |
| Succeeded by | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Co-Prince of Andorra | |
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In office 17 May 1995 – 16 May 2007 |
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| Prime Minister |
Marc Forné Molné Albert Pintat |
| Served with | Joan Martí Alanis |
| Preceded by | François Mitterrand |
| Succeeded by | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Prime Minister of France | |
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In office 20 March 1986 – 10 May 1988 |
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| President | François Mitterrand |
| Preceded by | Laurent Fabius |
| Succeeded by | Michel Rocard |
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In office 27 May 1974 – 26 August 1976 |
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| President | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
| Preceded by | Pierre Messmer |
| Succeeded by | Raymond Barre |
| Mayor of Paris | |
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In office 20 March 1977 – 16 May 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Position re-established |
| Succeeded by | Jean Tiberi |
| President of Rally for the Republic | |
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In office 5 December 1976 – 4 November 1994 |
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| Secretary- General |
Jérôme Monod Alain Devaquet Bernard Pons Jacques Toubon Alain Juppé |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Alain Juppé |
| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 27 February 1974 – 28 May 1974 |
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| President | Georges Pompidou |
| Prime Minister | Pierre Messmer |
| Preceded by | Raymond Marcellin |
| Succeeded by | Michel Poniatowski |
| Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development | |
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In office 7 July 1972 – 27 February 1974 |
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| President | Georges Pompidou |
| Prime Minister | Pierre Messmer |
| Preceded by | Michel Cointat |
| Succeeded by | Raymond Marcellin |
| Minister for Parliamentary Relations | |
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In office 7 January 1971 – 5 July 1972 |
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| President | Georges Pompidou |
| Prime Minister | Jacques Chaban-Delmas |
| Preceded by | Roger Frey |
| Succeeded by | Robert Boulin |
| President of the Corrèze General Council | |
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In office 15 March 1970 – 25 March 1979 |
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| Preceded by | Elie Rouby |
| Succeeded by | Georges Debat |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Jacques René Chirac 29 November 1932 Paris, France |
| Political party |
Communist Party (Before 1962) Union for the New Republic (1962–1968) Union of Democrats for the Republic (1968–1971) Rally for the Republic (1971–2002) Union for a Popular Movement (2002–2015) Republicans (2015–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Bernadette de Courcel (m. 1956) |
| Children | Laurence Claude |
| Alma mater |
Sciences Po École nationale d'administration |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 France
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| Service/branch | French Army |
| Years of service | 1954-1957 |
Jacques René Chirac (/ʒɑːk ʃᵻˈræk/; French pronunciation: [ʒak ʃi.ʁak]; 29 November 1932) is a French politician, who served as the President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra from 1995 to 2007. Chirac served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976, from 1986 to 1988, and as the Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.
After completing his degree at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), a term at Harvard University, and the École nationale d'administration (ENA), Chirac began his career as a high-level civil servant, and soon entered politics. Chirac occupied various senior positions, including Minister of Agriculture, Minister of the Interior, Prime Minister, Mayor of Paris, and President of the French 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 as Prime Minister (1986–1988), Chirac changed his method. He argued for more socially responsible economic policies, and was elected in 1995 after campaigning on a platform of healing the "social rift" (fracture sociale). Then, Chirac's economic policies, based on dirigisme, state-directed ideals, stood in opposition to the laissez-faire policies of the United Kingdom, which Chirac famously described as "Anglo-Saxon ultraliberalism".
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