French President Jacques Chirac smokes a cigarette during a meeting in Nice, southeastern France, March 26, 1976. PHOTO | GEORGES BENDRIHEM | AFP
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French President Jacques Chirac waves to the crowd, after the opening of the 24th Africa-France summit in Cannes, southern France on February 15, 2007 . FILE PHOTO | PATRICK KOVARIK | AFP
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French President Jacques Chirac (right) greets his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe at the opening of the 20th Franco-African summit in Paris on November 27, 1998. FILE PHOTO | PASCAL GUYOT | AFP
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French President Jacques Chirac (right) hugs former South African President Nelson Mandela after their meeting in Johannesburg on September 2, 2002. FILE PHOTO | PATRICK KOVARIK | AFP
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Libyan leader Muammer Gadhafi (right) shakes hands with French President Jacques Chirac at Bab Azizia palace in Tripoli on November 24, 2004. FILE PHOTO | PATRICK KOVARIK | AFP
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French President Jacques Chirac welcomes Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (left) before their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on May 23, 2001. FILE PHOTO | MANOOCHER DEGHATI | AFP
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French President Jacques Chirac receives Britain's Queen Elizabeth II during an official ceremony with full military honours on the Champs Elysees in Paris on April 5, 2004. FILE PHOTO | JOËL SAGET | AFP
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French President Jacques Chirac meets the crowd welcoming him on the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, a French overseas territory, upon his arrival at the Pamandzi-Dzaoudzi airport on May 19, 2001. PHOTO | PHILIPPE DESMAZES | AFP
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French national football team coach Aime Jacquet (C) brandishes the World Cup trophy with French President Jacques Chirac (L) and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin (R) at the traditional Bastille Day garden party at the Elysee Palace after France won the 1998 Football World Cup. PHOTO | GABRIEL BOUYS | AFP
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French President Jacques Chirac is pictured prior to delivering a speech as his wife Bernadette looks at him at the Marshan Palace in Tangiers, on the second day of their three-day sate visit to Morocco on October 10, 2003. PHOTO | PATRICK KOVARIK | AFP