PARIS (AP) — A man of imposing stature, with a broad smile and easy laugh, Jacques Chirac was the president of charisma and charm. Despite a corruption conviction and political scandals, his failed ...

NEW ORLEANS — Jacques Chirac, the former president of France who died Thursday, spent time in New Orleans in the 1950s while researching a thesis on the port. Chirac, who served two terms in office as ...

Paris — Former French president Jacques Chirac, who led the country for 12 years from 1995 to 2007, has died at the age of 86. His son-in-law Frederic Salat-Baroux confirmed his passing, telling ...

Ex-French president Jacques Chirac — whose enthusiasm for American food and culture didn’t stop him from opposing President George W. Bush’s 2003 plan to wage war in Iraq — died Thursday at age 86. “I ...

If you flagged down a taxi in New Orleans during the early 1950s, your driver might have been a future president of France. Jacques Chirac, who died Thursday in Paris at age 86, used his income as a ...

His son-in-law Frederic Salat-Baroux told The Associated Press that Chirac died "peacefully, among his loved ones." PARIS - Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to ...

Former French President Jacques Chirac, a gregarious and yet imperious political warhorse who during four decades in government became a senior European statesman and led opposition to the Iraq war, ...

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Jacques Chirac, a major political force in France for more than three decades, serving two terms as president from 1995 to 2007, has died. He was 86. Chirac’s death was confirmed by the Fondation ...

Chirac served two terms as president — from 1995-2007. He was mayor of Paris for nearly 20 years. Chirac had been hospitalized with a lung infection. Former French President Jacques Chirac has died in ...

Former French President Jacques Chirac, known for a carefully crafted “everyman” image but whose later years were dogged by allegations of corruption, has died at the age of 86. News of his death was ...