NEW ORLEANS — Jacques Chirac, the former president of France who died Thursday, spent time in New Orleans in the 1950s while researching a thesis on the port. Chirac, who served two terms in office as ...

Former French President Jacques Chirac, known for a carefully crafted "everyman" image but whose later years were dogged by allegations of corruption, has died at the age of 86.News of his death was ...

If you flagged down a taxi in New Orleans during the early 1950s, your driver might have been a future president of France. Jacques Chirac, who died Thursday in Paris at age 86, used his income as a ...

Former French President Jacques Chirac, a notable critic of the Iraq War, is dead, according to multiple reports, citing family members. He was 86. Chirac’s son-in-law Frederic Salat-Baroux confirmed ...

In recent decades, France has been rocked by scandals and crimes involving presidents, with two presidents being convicted, a prime minister being convicted, and a former president’s legacy tarnished ...

Paris — Former French president Jacques Chirac, who led the country for 12 years from 1995 to 2007, has died at the age of 86. His son-in-law Frederic Salat-Baroux confirmed his passing, telling ...

Former French President Jacques Chirac, a gregarious and yet imperious political warhorse who during four decades in government became a senior European statesman and led opposition to the Iraq war, ...

Upon the death of Charles de Gaulle a half-century ago, the former president and leader of the wartime resistance was universally praised as a “grand homme.” De Gaulle’s political nemesis, the ...