Jacques Chirac
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 29, 1932
- Died
- September 26, 2019 (aged 86)
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
Biography
Jacques Chirac, born November 29, 1932 in Paris and died September 26, 2019 in the same city, was a senior French civil servant and statesman. He was Prime Minister from 1974 to 1976, then again from 1986 to 1988, and President of the Republic from 1995 to 2007. After studying at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA), he joined the office of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou in 1962 as a special adviser. He was elected Member of Parliament for Corrèze within the Gaullist majority and appointed Secretary of State four times and Minister four times, starting in 1967. Chirac was subsequently chosen as Prime Minister by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1974. Two years later, having had poor relations with Giscard, he resigned from Prime Minister's office and launched the Rally for the Republic (RPR), a political party claiming to be Gaullist. While continuing his career as an elected official in Corrèze, he became Mayor of Paris in 1977 and ran in the 1981 presidential election. After the right-wing victory in the 1986 legislative elections, he was appointed by Socialist President François Mitterrand to serve as Prime Minister once again. He was thus the first head of government under a cohabitation regime under the Fifth Republic and, at the same time, the only politician to have served as Prime Minister twice under the same regime. He was defeated in the second round of the 1988 presidential election by the incumbent president, then became leader of the opposition, despite subsequently facing the growing popularity of Édouard Balladur. In 1995, he was elected Head of State with 52.6% of the vote in the second round, defeating Socialist Lionel Jospin. He initially governed with the right-wing majority he acquired in 1993. The beginning of his first term was marked by a pension and social security reform that was massively contested and partially abandoned, and by the recognition of the French state's responsibility for the persecution and deportation of Jews during the Occupation. Following the dissolution of the National Assembly in 1997, he lost his majority in Parliament and was forced into cohabitation with Lionel Jospin, during which a referendum was held establishing the five-year presidential term: Jacques Chirac was thus the last president of the Fifth Republic to have served a seven-year term. In the 2002 presidential election, he was re-elected for a five-year term with 82.2% of the vote in the second round, benefiting from a "republican front" against the National Front candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen. During his second term, after launching the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), he led the international opposition to the Iraq War launched by US President George W. Bush in 2003 and campaigned for a "yes" vote in the 2005 referendum on the European Constitution, which resulted in a "no" victory. At the end of his presidency in 2007, faced with low popularity and a succession of electoral defeats, and weakened by a stroke in 2005, he decided not to seek a third term. On June 9, 2008, the "Chirac Foundation" for sustainable development and intercultural dialogue was launched. Jacques Chirac died in Paris on September 26, 2019.
Known For
Filmography
Mai 68, dix semaines qui ébranlèrent la France
Movie · as Jacques Chirac (Self)
1995 - Hopes and Betrayals
Movie · as Himself (Archival Footage)
Chirac sous les Tropiques, petits arrangements avec la République
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
America Who Are You?
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps
The Relentless Patriot
Movie · as Self
The Revenge of Bernadette Chirac
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Au cœur du Papotin
Movie · as Self
Trois mille milliards : les secrets d'un État en faillite
Movie · as Jacques Chirac
La Malédiction de la Grande Arche
Movie · as Self (archive) - Prime Minister (1986-1988)
The Rise of Wagner
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps
Unveiling Arafat
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Cent jours
Movie · as Self
In France with Madonna
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Mohammed VI - The Limits of Power
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
10 mai 1981 : Changer la vie ?
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Mitterrand et la télé
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Nicotine - A Drug with a Future
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Entretien politique : Histoire et mode d'emploi
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Lebanon in Crisis
Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
30 Years of Democracy
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Mon Chirac
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
1974, l'alternance Giscard
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... Les Présidents et les Français
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Perfect Day
Movie · as Self
Jacques Chirac, l'homme qui ne voulait pas être président
Movie · as Jacques Chirac
Mr & Mme Adelman
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Balladur-Chirac, mensonges et trahisons
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
King of Morocco, the secret reign
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Sanctuary
Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Le Clan Chirac
Movie · as Self
Pierre Mazeaud, la vie en face(s)
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The New Watchdogs
Movie · as Self
Bernadette Chirac - Un jour, un destin
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Sarah's Key
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Modern Life
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
10 mai Africaphonie
Movie · as Self
Being Jacques Chirac
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Chirac
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Case of the Grinning Cat
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jacques Chirac, du jeune loup au vieux lion
TV · as Jacques Chirac · 2 eps
French Kiss
Movie · as Self
Breaking Point: Canada/Quebec - The 1995 Referendum
Movie · as Himself
Celsius 41.11
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
One of Many
Movie · as Self
Athens 2004: Olympic Opening Ceremony (Games of the XXVIII Olympiad)
Movie · as Self - President of the French Republic
Fogh bag facaden
Movie · as Self
1974, une partie de campagne
Movie · as Self
Comme un coup de tonnerre
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
L'Invité
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Taxi 2
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
Movie · as Self
Hemingway: Winner Take Nothing
Movie · as Self
Vivement dimanche
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps
Zone interdite
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Christo in Paris
Movie · as Self
Envoyé Spécial
TV · as Jacques Chirac · 1 ep
Islands
Movie · as Self
L'Heure de vérité
TV · as self · 1 ep
Reporters
Movie · as Self
30 millions d'amis
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Les Jeux de 20 heures
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Midi Première
TV · as Self · 1 ep