Bernadette Chirac

Actor May 18 (age 92) Paris, France 1975–2023 (48 year career)

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Biography

Bernadette Thérèse Marie Chirac (née Chodron de Courcel; born 18 May 1933) is a French politician and the widow of the former president Jacques Chirac. She and Chirac met as students at Sciences Po, and were married on 16 March 1956. They had three children: Laurence (born 4 March 1958, deceased 14 April 2016) and Claude Chirac (born 6 December 1962), and a Vietnamese foster-daughter, Anh Đào Traxel. Since 2001, Bernadette has been the patron of Opération Pièces Jaunes, a charity that helps ch…