Hospitalized in Tours since mid-November, former President of the Republic Valéry Giscard d'Estaing died Wednesday evening.

Emmanuel Macron will address the French at 8 p.m. on Thursday to pay tribute to him, announced the Elysee. 

Emmanuel Macron will address the French at 8 p.m. on Thursday to pay tribute to former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who died Wednesday at the age of 94, announced the Elysee.

The head of state has already greeted, in a press release published overnight, the memory of "VGE", a head of state whose "seven years transformed France" and tweeted the official photo of the former president .

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- Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) December 3, 2020

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