Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jacques Chirac, who died at 86 on Thursday, towered over French politics for nearly 40 years, first as Mayor of Paris, then as ...

PARIS (AP) — A man of imposing stature, with a broad smile and easy laugh, Jacques Chirac was the president of charisma and charm. Despite a corruption conviction and political scandals, his failed ...

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 ...

Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France’s role in the Holocaust and defiantly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, died Thursday at age 86. His ...

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 ...

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 ...

The body of former French president Jacques Chirac is carried out from the Invalides monument in Paris.AP The coffin of former French President Jacques Chirac is seen in the court yard of the ...