Name: Former French president Jacques Chirac dies aged 86 - BBC News
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this man appeared on the political scene back in the 19 seventies.

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That is not not forget when he was regarded as a part of a new generation of whiz kid young politicians or technocrats who had emerged under the aegis of the golden Pompey.

Do remember he was characterized, characterized famously in an early Asterix album, as as the exemplar of the young thrusting planner in the book.

He was a Roman, but in real life he was a plan.

He was a great organizer, entered politics as a Gaullist, whatever that meant or whatever that means, but certainly under the banner of the Golden Palm between that succession and then had this long, long, kind of in out war, which is really kind of friendly war with president meter or president meter, or the Socialist she Iraq, the man of the right on You know, this is a battle in which they both posed as being terribly hostile, the other.

But in point of fact, their policies were very, very closely.

You know, that part of the great critique of this whole period is that for 30 years, when the two men dominated French politics.

Not much was done because there's a kind of cozy consensus around around the center.

It was never a radical right wing at all on meter or was never part of the very beginning, a radical left winger on.

And of course, they did actually cohabit as the phrase went from time in the eighties, when she Iraq was prime minister and metal was president.

So the other thing one has to remember at Sherrick is that fame famous pole.

He was the man that even towards the end of his tenure, he is the man that a man that most French people said they'd quite like have dinner with.

So even even even when there was a massive rejection of his policies, a general sense that he'd represented a sort of drift it certainly in terms of economic and policy inside France and the decline had taken root under his tenure, Hey was nonetheless a man who has much regard highly regarded, loved even for what he seemed to represent.

He was somebody who had his roots in the countryside who loved coughing beer and eating tech TiVoing account carves head stew or Patty Andi Hey was Catholic or not too much.

He was something represented France and emblem off France that people could identify with something which I would say since his departure.

 And many would say that since he's gone, maybe politics has taken a turn for the better because there are more dynamic politicians around, but since then hasn't been that kind of unifying character at the top of French politics. 