Valéry Giscard d'Estaing died on 2 December 2020 in Authon, aged 94. A French politician, Giscard d'Estaing was President of France from 1974 to 1981. A graduate of the elite Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, he served as finance minister before winning the presidency as the candidate of the center-right. His term saw social reforms, including legalized divorce by mutual consent, lowering of the voting age to eighteen, and the legalization of abortion. He championed European integration, helping to create the European Monetary System and the European Council, and later led the convention that drafted the European constitutional treaty.
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