Death of former President Jacques Chirac

The family of Jacques Chirac announced the death of the former President of the Republic, who died "peacefully" Thursday morning at the age of 86 years. He has been sick for many years, and no longer appears in public.
The doctors had several times told his wife Bernadette and his daughter Claude that the vital prognosis of the former president was now engaged. Jacques Chirac died this Thursday at his Paris home in the Rue de Tournon, he never left since September 2016, where he had been repatriated from Morocco to be hospitalized at Petit Salptrér for a pulmonary infection.

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 A minute of silence was immediately observed in the National Assembly, as well as in the Senate, where the death of Jacques Chirac was announced in session. The industrialist François Pinault, close friend of the couple Chirac, said in a statement of his "infinite sadness".

  Aged 86, Jacques Chirac was weakened since his departure from the Elysee Palace in May 2007. He had been hospitalized several times, particularly in December 2015 due to a general weakening. He had also suffered a stroke in 2005. According to his relatives, the former head of state had been very distressed by the death of his eldest daughter, Laurence, in April 2016. The last appearance of Jacques Chirac at an official ceremony went back to November 21, 2014, during the presentation of the Fondation Chirac's award at the Quai Branly museum. He had appeared diminished, his hand on the shoulder of his bodyguard. The then president, François Hollande, and Alain Juppé, his former prime minister, had been keen to accompany the former head of state. 

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