The mayor PS Anne Hidalgo inaugurated Monday, November 29 at the foot of the Eiffel Tower and with her right-wing opposition the Quai Jacques-Chirac, in tribute to the former president and mayor of the capital who died in 2019.
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Accompanied by Claude Chirac, who represented the family, and government spokesperson Gabriel Attal, Anne Hidalgo and the LR mayors of the 7th and 15th arrondissements, Rachida Dati and Philippe Goujon, unveiled the plaque paying tribute to a "
man of" State which, for more than 40 years, will have served the French
, ”according to Anne Hidalgo. The former prime ministers of the right Alain Juppé and Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the former socialist mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë and the actress Line Renaud, very close to the Chirac family, were among the personalities present.
Renaming the quai Branly, in front of the museum of the same name dedicated to the primitive arts on the initiative of the former president, allows "
to anchor Jacques Chirac's name forever in the streets of his city
", declared the PS candidate in the presidential election.
This museum, inaugurated in 2006 and which also bears the name of Jacques Chirac since 2016, "
is a manifesto and the successful expression of the vision of the world that Jacques Chirac has always defended
", for Anne Hidalgo: "
that of an equal dignity between cultures and civilizations and the necessary dialogue between peoples
”.
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Beginning at the Alma bridge, the Jacques-Chirac quay ends at the Place des Martyrs Juifs at the Vélodrome d'Hiver, where Jacques Chirac was the first president to recognize France's responsibility for the deportation of the Jews during the Second world War.
The first mayor of Paris elected by universal suffrage in 1977, Jacques Chirac had assumed the presidency of the Republic at the end of his third term, in 1995, to then spend two terms at the Elysee.
