Respect.’ In the last four decades of his life, even though he was busy in some relatively ceremonial government positions, he was mostly present in “memories,” and this caused a kind of depression in him. During the 14 years of Mitterrand’s presidency and almost all of Chirac’s presidency, Valéry Giscard D’Estaing was considered “the only living former president of France” and participated in television programs with the same title and made comments or expressed memories.
