Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Who Struggled to Transform France, Dies at 94


By BY JONATHAN KANDELL
World
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As a conservative president and a descendant of nobility, he sought to make government more responsive to the people but was thwarted by an economic slowdown, demographic shifts and an imperious bearing. He died of Covid-19.
New York Times
Deaths (Obituaries), Politics and Government
December 2, 2020 at 11:14PM

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