Death has approached.
Emmanuel Macron saw her in the distance on September 26, 2019 when he learned of the disappearance of Jacques Chirac.
That day, the Head of State understands that later, one of those who will have succeeded him will have to pay him homage in turn.
A year later, it is the memory of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing that he will have to honor.
Even more distant predecessor whose seven-year term he will hardly have lived.
A disappearance which makes him the first president of the Fifth Republic to bury two of his predecessors.
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As if an entire era, that of the 1970s and 1980s, had made an appointment to disappear during his mandate.
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