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unusual facts about Olivier Giscard d'Estaing


Olivier Giscard d'Estaing

Co-founder of the Caux Round Table, Dr. Giscard d'Estaing is the author of six books and widely published in journals such as the Revue Politique Parlementaire and the Revue des Deux Mondes.


Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing

She also is a great-niece of the Cuban-born French designer and architect José Emilio Terry y Dorticos and the sister of Paul Dominique Marie Joseph Sauvage de Brantès, the present Marquis de Brantès.

Though she bears no noble title, she is a daughter of François Marie Joseph Abel Henri Sauvage, marquis of Brantès, who died in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp on 8 May 1944, and his wife, the former Princess Aymone Marie Sylvie Renée de Faucigny-Lucinge et Coligny, a great-great-granddaughter of Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry by his mistress Amy Brown.

D'Estaing family

Lucie Madeleine d'Estaing (Paris 1743 - Clermont-Ferrand 1826), viscountes of Ravel in Auvergne, illegitimate half-sister of the admiral, mistress of Louis XV; married, she had numerous descendants including two daughters of Louis XV.

Editorial Atlántida

Growing international pressure against the regime's Dirty War resulted in a petition campaign organized by Para Tí, in which postcards labeled "Argentina: The Whole Truth" could be torn out by readers and mailed to a list of addresses of the regime's most prominent international critics, including U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Senator Ted Kennedy, and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, as well as Amnesty International and numerous international newspapers of record.

Éric Blanc

In 1986 he began his career with an engagement at the Caveau de la République, a venue for new humorists in Paris, performing imitations of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the TV host Frédéric Mitterrand, and the French tennis player Yannick Noah.

France in the American Revolutionary War

The British avoided intercepting a French fleet that left Toulon under the comte d'Estaing in April for North America, fearing the French fleet at Brest might then be used to launch an invasion of Britain.

French legislative election, 1978

In his Verdun-sur-le-Doubs speech, President Giscard d'Estaing warned the French voters that he could not prevent the enforcement of the left-wing Common programme if the "Union of Left" won.

Grey's raid

In response to the threat to Newport, General Sir Henry Clinton ordered 4,000 men under General Charles Grey to prepare for transport to Rhode Island while Admiral Lord Richard Howe sailed from New York to oppose d'Estaing.

Guillaume Giscard d'Estaing

After an initial career as a naval officer and helicopter pilot, Guillaume Giscard d'Estaing entered Turbomeca (Snecma group) based in Pau in 1994 as Sales Manager and, later, Marketing Director.

Jean-François Tartu

In 1779 sailed to Fort Royal to take part in a squadron under Lamotte-Picquet in the fleet of Admiral d'Estaing.

Les Cactus

The song was referenced by French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou in the Assemblée Nationale to indicate his feelings towards his former Finance Minister, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who was a harsh critics of his successor Michel Debré: "As Jacques Dutronc says, there is a cactus here".

Lyudmila Ter-Petrosyan

Ter-Petrossian was an honorary participant of different International conferences organized by Hillary Clinton, Rosalynn Carter, Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing and others.

Mário Garnero

Throughout the years, Garnero became a personal friend of some of the most influential personalities in the world, including Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon, US Secretary of Defense William Cohen, banker and statesman David Rockefeller and Jacob Rothschild, US Presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, among others.

Nicolas Gouïn Dufief

Dufief, though a stripling of fifteen, joined in 1792 the royal naval corps assembled under the Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing at Enghien, and went through the campaign with his regiment in the army of the brothers of Louis XVIII until its disbandment.

Oriani-class destroyer

She was given to the French Navy as a war reparation, where she served as the D'Estaing until 1954

Sino-Mauritian

Like members of other communities on the island, some of the earliest Chinese in Mauritius arrived involuntarily, having been "shanghaied" from Sumatra in the 1740s to work in Mauritius in a scheme hatched by the French admiral Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing; however, they soon went on strike to protest their kidnapping.

Tomás Terry

María Natividad (1882–1960), married to Prince Guy Charles de Faucigny-Lucinge et Coligny (1876–1914), great-grandson of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry through his daughter Charlotte, Countess of Issoudun, bore by his mistress Amy Brown (with issue, including Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing).

Union for French Democracy

During the 1978 legislative electoral campaign, in his Verdun-sur-le-Doubs speech, President Giscard d'Estaing noted that the political leanings of the French people were divided among four groups: the Communists (PCF), the Socialists (PS), the Neo-Gaullists (RPR) and his own followers.

VGE

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (born 1926), former President of the French Republic


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