Louis Joachim Marie François Giscard d'Estaing (born 20 October 1958) is a French politician and former member of the
National Assembly of France
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. He is the son of the late
President of France
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing (, ; ; 2 February 19262 December 2020), also known as simply Giscard or VGE, was a French politician who served as President of France from 1974 to 1981.
After serving as Ministry of the Economy ...
Puy-de-Dôme
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He was married to musicologist Nawal-Alexandra Ebeid (1959–2011) from 1996 until her death in 2011. She was born in
Pasadena
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, California in 1959 and was a graduate of
George Washington University
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. The couple had one son, Pierre-Louis Giscard d'Estaing. He remarried to Claire Labic in 2016.