Giscard d'Estaing
Americannoun
noun
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As energy exporters accumulated dollar reserves, this allowed the U.S. to borrow extensively and cheaply, what former French president Valery Giscard d’Estaing called its “exorbitant privilege.”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026
He was close to the powerful Servan-Schreiber, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and prominent statesman Pierre Mendès France, among others.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2024
The visit will be the first by a French president since Valery Giscard d’Estaing traveled to Lafayette and New Orleans in 1976, The Advocate reported.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2022
Born on Feb. 2, 1926, in Koblenz, Germany, where his father was posted as an economist serving in the French diplomatic service, he was christened Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d’Estaing.
From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2020
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
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