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...Valéry Giscard d'Estaing promised to bring "change" to France. So far, at least, he is delivering. In a carefully staged show of disdain for the pomp of the Gaullist years, he walked rather than rode to his inauguration at the Elysée Palace, wore a business suit instead of tails, talked for a few minutes about a "new era" instead of delivering an oration about the glories of the past. Over the next few days he announced the first of several measures to "relax" French political life. He decreed an end to widespread wiretapping...
...often been said by his friends that from childhood on, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was condemned to succeed. He was born with the gifts of good looks and intellectual brilliance from a patrician background. Almost effortlessly, he rose to become one of France's youngest and most powerful Finance Ministers. A few days before his election as President of France, Giscard granted an exclusive interview to TIME Correspondent George Taber. Relaxing over a snack of Roquefort cheese and champagne aboard the Mystere executive jet that he used during the campaign, Giscard discussed his foreign policy...
Throughout France's recent election campaign, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was rarely without a member of his family by his side. One of his two sons, Henri, 17, and Louis, 16, usually carried the notes for his speeches. Younger daughter Jacinte, 14, became one of the most familiar faces in France; her picture appeared on thousands of her father's election posters. Pretty Valérie-Anne, 20, surprised and delighted a crowd of 100,000 Parisians at an election rally when she suddenly kissed her father on both cheeks just as he was about...
...major interests is in encouraging career education for women. She has had some experience in that herself, having studied economics in the past two years in order to "keep up with the economic-oriented discussions in the family." Indeed, it probably takes some doing to keep up with Valérie-Anne, a student at the prestigious Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris, and Henri, who is studying economics at the University of Nanterre. The two younger children are enrolled in private Catholic schools in Paris...
...presidential campaign changed much of this. Politics became a consuming topic. Not only did the children accompany their father on campaign trips, but Henri and Valérie-Anne sold the now famous Giscard à la Barre! (Giscard at the helm) T shirts, planned bicycle tours of Paris and organized sing-ins at the Etoile. Mme. Giscard was constantly on call for press interviews. While she realizes that the presidency will intrude on the family's private life, she hopes that it will be "as little as possible. I hope I won't be obliged to cloister myself...