Ex-French President Chirac, who stood up to US, dies at 86 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy the Associated PressPARIS — Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France’s role in the Holocaust and defiantly opposed the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, died Thursday at age 86. Chirac was long the standard-bearer of France’s conservative right and mayor of Paris for nearly two decades. While still president in 2005, Chirac suffered a stroke that put him in the hospital for a week. Chirac traveled to the United States as a young man, and as president, he fondly remembered hitchhiking across the country.

Source: Manila Bulletin September 26, 2019 10:22 UTC