Valery Giscard d'Estaing, former President of the Republic -

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The former President of the Republic and right-wing figure Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was hospitalized on Monday afternoon at the Parisian hospital Georges Pompidou, his entourage told Agence Française de Presse.

The former head of state, President of the Republic between 1974 and 1981 and currently aged 94, would be in an intensive care unit for respiratory problems and a lung infection, according to our colleagues from the newspaper 

Le Parisien,

but the entourage of the former president was not able to confirm this information.

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