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Biography of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Name: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Birth Date: February 2, 1926
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Koblenz, Germany
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: president, politician, member of Parliament
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
The third president of the French Fifth Republic, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (born 1926) was the architect of France's economic return as one of the leading nations of the world.Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was born in Koblenz, Germany on February 2, 1926, during the French occupation of the Rhineland. Most of his childhood was spent in Clermont-Ferrand, which had been his family's home for generations. Like many upper class young men of his day, Giscard (he is commonly known by the traditional family name) moved to Paris as a teenager to continue his studies at the Lycées Jeanson de Sailly and Louis-le-Grand.World War II interrupted his studies. At the age of 16 he joined the resistance against the Germans and collaborationist Vichy government and participated in the 1944 liberation of Paris. He then joined the French army and continued in the fight against the Germans in northern France and …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…countries.Giscard reflected as much as any one individual could the personality of the group that dominated the Fifth Republic's first quarter century. Though he came from the "old France" of the nobility and small town politics, he also personified the "new France" of technically competent bureaucrats who sparked the modernization that turned France into one of the most powerful and dynamic countries in the world. Further Reading For an overview of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's career, see J. R. Frears, France in the Giscard Presidency (London, 1981). For his own ideas, see Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French Democracy (1977).For biographic resources about Valéry Giscard d'Estaing see: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Edition 5, Columbia University Press, 1993.For on-line resources about Valéry Giscard d'Estaing see: http://www.biography.com, http://web.w2line.fr/ard-auvergne/gb/default.html, and http://web.w2line.fr/ard-auvergne/gb/brochure.html.
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