Nicolas Sarkozy

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President of France

• Nicolas Sarkozy
• Jacques Chirac
• François Mitterrand
• Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
• Georges Pompidou
• Charles de Gaulle
• René Coty
• Vincent Auriol
• Paul Deschanel
• Émile Loubet
• Jean Casimir-Perier
• Adolphe Thiers

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Nicolas Sarkozy

• born Nicolas Paul Stéphane
• Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa on 28
• January 1955 in the 17th
• arrondissement of Paris) is the
• President of the French Republic
• and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra.
• He assumed the office on 16 May
• 2007 after defeating Socialist Party
• candidate Ségolène Royal ten days
• earlier.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy

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Jacques René Chirac

• (born 29 November 1932) served as
• the President of France from 17 May
• 1995 until 16 May 2007. As President
• he also served as an ex officio Co-
• Prince of Andorra and Grand Wizard
• of the French Légion d'honneur.
• Chirac was the second-longest
• serving President of France (two full
• terms, first seven years and second
• five), behind François Mitterrand.
• Chirac is the only person to have
• served twice as Prime Minister under
• the Fifth Republic.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Chirac

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François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand

• (26 October 1916  8 January 1996)
• served as President of France from
• 1981 to 1995, elected as
• representative of the Socialist Party
• (PS). First elected during the May
• 1981 presidential election, he became
• the first socialist president of the Fifth
• Republic and the first left-wing head
• of state since 1957. He is to date the
• only member of the Socialist Party to
• be elected President of France. He
• was re-elected in 1988 and held office
• until 1995, before his death from
• prostate cancer the following year.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FranC3A7ois_Mitterr
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Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing

• (born 2 February 1926) is a French
• centre-right politician who was President
• of the French Republic from 1974 until
• 1981. His tenure as President was
• marked by a more liberal attitude on
• social issues such as divorce,
• contraception, and abortion and attempts
• to modernize the country and the office
• of the presidency, notably launching
• such far-reaching infrastructure projects
• as the high-speed TGV train and the
• turn towards reliance on nuclear power
• as France's main energy source.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValC3A9ry_Giscard_d
  27Estaing

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Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou

• (5 July 1911  2 April 1974) was
• President of the French Republic from
• 1969 until his death in 1974.He was born
• in the commune of Montboudif, in the
• department of Cantal in central France.
• After his khâgne at Lycée Louis-le-Grand,
• where he befriended Senegalese poet
• and statesman Léopold Sedar Senghor,
• he graduated from the École Normale
• Supérieure with a degree of Agrégation in
• literature.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Pompidou

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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle

• (22 November 1890 9 November
• 1970) was a French general and
• statesman who led the Free French
• Forces during World War II. He later
• founded the French Fifth Republic in
• 1958 and served as its first President
• from 1959 to 1969. 1 In France, he is
• commonly referred to as Général de
• Gaulle or simply Le Général, or
• familiarly as "le Grand Charles".
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle

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René Jules Gustave Coty

• (20 March 1882  22 November
• 1962) was President of France from
• 1954 to 1959. He was the second and
• last president under the French
• Fourth Republic.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RenC3A9_Coty

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Jules-Vincent Auriol

• (27 August, 1884   1 January, 1966)
• was a French politician who served as
• the first President of the Fourth Republic
• from 1947 to 1954. He also served as
• interim President of the Provisional
• Government (head of state and
• government) from November to
• December 1946, making him one of
• only three people (with Charles de
• Gaulle and Alain Poher) who were
• heads of state of the French Republic
• on two separate occasions.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Auriol

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Paul Eugène Louis Deschanel

• (13 February 1855 - 28 April 1922)
• was a French statesman. He served
• as President of France from 18
• February 1920 to 21 September 1920.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Deschanel

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Émile François Loubet

• (31 December 1838 - 20 December
• 1929) was a French politician and the
• 8th President of France.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C389mile_Loubet

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Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier

• (8 November 1847 - 11 March 1907)
• was a French politician, fifth president
• of the French Third Republic. He was
• born in Paris, the son of Auguste
• Casimir-Perier and the grandson of
• Casimir Pierre Perier, premier of
• Louis Philippe. He entered public life
• as secretary to his father, who was
• minister of the interior under the
• presidency of Thiers.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Casimir-Perier

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Louis-Adolphe Thiers

• (Marseille, 16 April 17973 September 1877)
• was a French politician and historian. Thiers
• was a prime minister under King Louis-Philippe
• of France. Following the overthrow of the
• Second Empire he again came to prominence
• as the French leader who suppressed the
• revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871. From
• 1871 to 1875 he served initially as Head of
• State (effectively a provisional President of
• France), then provisional President. When,
• following a vote of no confidence in the National
  
• Assembly, his offer of resignation was accepted
• (he had expected a rejection) he was forced to
• vacate the office. He was replaced as
• Provisional President by Patrice MacMahon,
• duc de Magenta, who became full President of
• the Republic, a post Thiers had coveted, in
• 1875 when a series of constitutional laws
• officially creating the Third Republic were