Giscard d'Estaing
Americannoun
noun
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The Advocate reported that the visit will be the first by a French president since Valery Giscard d’Estaing traveled to Lafayette and New Orleans in 1976.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
Simone Veil, a fellow lawyer and women’s rights advocate, took up the cause while serving as minister health in the French government of President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022
But in 1976 under President Giscard d'Estaing, the French state introduced a brighter blue on the tricolour to match the blue on the flag of Europe.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2021
He created the Grand Prize of the Institute of Letters and Manuscripts and bestowed it, along with a check for €10,000, on people such as Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the former president of France.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2020
Thatcher reminded Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the aquiline French President, of a tiresome English nanny his family had once employed.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019
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