Hospitalized in Tours since mid-November, the former President of the Republic Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is dead, learned Europe 1. The former head of state from 1974 to 1981, was 94 years old.

On September 14, "VGE" had already been hospitalized on September 14 at the Georges Pompidou hospital, in Paris, for "a slight infection in the lungs".

Europe 1 learned this Wednesday evening of the death of the 20th President of the French Republic, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

The former head of state from 1974 to 1981, aged 94, had been hospitalized in the cardiology department of the CHU Trousseau in Tours since mid-November.

On September 14, "VGE" had already been hospitalized on September 14 at the Georges Pompidou hospital, in Paris, for "a slight infection in the lungs".

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