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Jacques Chirac, a former president, reaches to kiss her hand and cradles it "as if it were a piece of porcelain" .

French President Jacques Chirac's personal chef could not go because he had to be in France for a state visit.

For a start Mr Sarkozy, unlike Jacques Chirac in 1995, has entered office with a strong electoral mandate for change.

The only other modern French president to have lost popularity so quickly was Mr. Sarkozy's predecessor, Jacques Chirac.

That was a victory for Jacques Chirac, then French president, over German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who wanted the fines to be automatic.

To a standing ovation, French President Jacques Chirac stepped into the Great hall in high spirits.

THE French have greeted the decision to put Jacques Chirac on trial for misappropriation of public funds with mixed feelings.

On the eighteenth, Jacques Chirac and Romano Prodi came to the White House for my last meeting with European Union leaders.

French judge has placed former President Jacques Chirac under formal investigation as part of a corruption probe. Mr.

In 1995 President Jacques Chirac backed down after a three-week strike, a critical defeat in his attempt to reform the economy.

Jacques Chirac suggested a state funeral for him and perhaps interment in the Pantheon, alongside Rousseau and Voltaire.

Jacques Chirac embodied this tradition, taking his cues from the Arab street, and arguing for a European counterweight to America.

Britain's Tony Blair and France's Jacques Chirac were crucial to getting a climate change deal but both would be leaving office in months.

Out went the formal, remote style of his predecessor, Jacques Chirac. In came an open, regular-guy approach.

The president, Jacques Chirac, a Gaullist descendant, has called liberalism a greater menace for Europe than communism.

Fran? ois Baroin, a minister under Jacques Chirac, has said he should slow down reforms altogether.

President Nicolas Sarkozy is proving to be as awkward a military ally in 2011 as Jacques Chirac was a disruptive opponent in 2003.

Across the Atlantic, France's image has been transformed from the bad old days of Mr Sarkozy's predecessor, Jacques Chirac.

Former French President Jacques Chirac was put on trial Monday for embezzling money from the city of Paris when he was mayor.

FIFTEEN years ago he was cast aside by the Gaullist right because he backed a rival candidate to Jacques Chirac for the French presidency.

As I recall, France's Jacques Chirac and Germany's Gerhard Schr? der were mustard keen to side with the autocrats.

President Jacques Chirac has ordered his government to draw up legislation to force French companies to pay equal wages to men and women.

Relations today between President Jacques Chirac of France and Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain tell part of the story.

French President Jacques Chirac started a state visit to China Saturday.

President Jacques Chirac will officially launch the Millau bridge at Tuesday's ceremony, almost exactly three years after work began.

Today's world is plagued by terrorism, cultural conflicts and power politics, French President Jacques Chirac said yesterday.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair supported the Iraq war despite French President Jacques Chirac speaking out against it.

Unlike his predecessor, Jacques Chirac, he was not naturally drawn to the continent or its culture.

MANY a sceptic has long doubted that Jacques Chirac would ever see the inside of a courtroom, let alone a jail.

Former French President Jacques Chirac would never have vacationed stateside, let alone in New Hampshire, the way Sarkozy did this summer.

Jacques Chirac, the former President of France, has been convicted for misusing public funds when he was mayor of Paris in the 1990s.

Two veterans of the world stage, Jacques Chirac and Tony Blair, will step aside, leaving Europe even more introverted .

In 2005 she was called back to France by Jacques Chirac to become trade minister.

His successor Jacques Chirac was widely known for his fondness for women.

Jacques Chirac chose Lebanon for his first presidential visit to the Middle East, in 1996.

At the previous regional poll in 2004, when Jacques Chirac was president, the Socialists also swept the board.

To their dismay, the voters had to choose between Mr Le Pen and the incumbent, Jacques Chirac, in the run-off.

In 1995 grumbling about an overvalued franc helped Jacques Chirac win the presidential election in France.

France's winning Davis Cup team celebrates success and gets the chance to meet President Jacques Chirac.

A satirical documentary, "Dans la Peau de Jacques Chirac" , is showing in cinemas.

In 2006 Jacques Chirac walked out of a Brussels summit in protest at a Frenchman speaking in English.

Jacques Chirac, French president in 2003, had served in Algeria.

"It is our responsibility. The future of humanity demands it, " President Jacques Chirac said.

In the "Memoirs of Jacques Chirac: step by step to win 1932-1995, " a book, he also pursued this principle.

Economic problems for the french and popularity problems for jacques chirac may have also influenced voters

Article of Freedom: Jacques Chirac encourages the diffusion of works on Internet

Chief Political Adviser to French President Jacques Chirac

French President Jacques Chirac Delivered a Speech at PKU

The trial of Jacques Chirac

It is plain that Jacques Chirac has wasted his 11 years as president