Denis Tillinac, writer and close friend of Jacques Chirac, reacts on Europe 1 to the death of the former president.

REACTION

"A lot of sadness." Denis Tillinac, an intimate friend of Jacques Chirac, said Thursday his emotion at the microphone of Europe 1. The writer spoke of the "panache" and "prodigious charisma" of the former president, who died at the age of 86 .

He had met Jacques Chirac for the first time in Corrèze, at the time when he roamed the multipurpose rooms of the region. "When he landed there, Chirac was like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas."