Chirac's fight for human dignity

It is with a deep emotion that France, and the world, remembers the former French President Jacques Chirac (1932-2019) who marked his time in office with a rare combination of energy and vision.

In the field of domestic French politics, he tried, during his presidency (1995-2007), to deal with the issue of la fracture sociale or the great social divide. Chirac was rightly concerned by the serious and continuing problem of economic and social inequalities.

At the global level, the man who was for many years the mayor of Paris, asked the international community to pay attention to sustainability and to the protection of diversity.