Valéry Giscard d'Estaing passed away this Tuesday, December 2 at the age of 94.
The third president of the Fifth Republic, who ruled France from 1974 to 1981, will have left his mark on French society.
During his seven-year term, he will increase the majority from 21 to 18 years and will support in 1975 the legalization of the right to abortion carried by Simone Veil.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is also one of the architects of European construction, in particular thanks to his privileged relationship with German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, with whom he will found the bases of the single European currency.
The polytechnician by training, who also passed through the benches of the ENA (National School of Administration) between 1949 and 1951, was elected in the first round in 2003 to the French Academy.
This is a first for a former president.
Henri Vernet, deputy editor-in-chief of the political service of Le Parisien, retraces in video the highlights of the political career of one who will remain an "immortal".
