The last president that had the allure and class of a president. Since then it has been worst and worst, each new president being vulgar in its own way. RIP. Also the museum (Quai Branly) is awesome.

Funny how as soon as you die, all your sins are forgotten and you a revered as some kind of political saint.

Chirac was a crook. I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm surely glad he left.

Not really, as far as I've heard/read, at least in French media, they were very quick to point this out.

He was indeed a crook, but seemed like a nice, personable crooks, rather than the cynical ones we get nowadays.

He brought Nicolas Sarkozy to light, who was indeed part of a new generation of cynics.

funny how everything you do in your life time can be forgotten and and you are labeled a crooked for the smallest amount of corruption

"may the one who never sinned throw a rock at me"

The heading about corruption in the article seems to have lost the text below it. Here is a wikipedia bit about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Chirac#Conviction_for_...