Also, his election was the end of France’s “magnificent thirty years” period, which began after the end of the World War and whose memory is still alive in the minds of the French. This was the period when the country was moving towards prosperity and the conditions of the French government were such that it even digested the May 1968 movement.
In accordance with his wishes, his funeral will take place in the strictest family privacy.’ Valéry Giscard Destin was born on February 2, 1926, in Koblenz, Germany, and was elected president of France in 1974, when he was no more than 48 years old. Before him, Charles de Gaulle, the national hero, and Georges Pompidou, a political follower of de Gaulle, were the former presidents of the “Fifth Republic” of France, and Giscard Destin was the first non-“Guilleste” to enter the Elysee.
