The truth about the daily life and health of Jacques Chirac – Gala

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The entourage of the former head of State, Jacques Chirac cultivated discretion about it. A book, “President, the night comes falling” (Cherche-midi) reveals his daily life.

This is the story of a man who is more master of his own destiny. The disease prevents today Jacques Chirac. Hyperactive throughout their lives, political and private, he has not even been able to travel to Morocco last summer, as he was used to. His family didn ‘t want to take the risk of a repatriation emergency, as was already the case a year ago, following ae lung infection. They have preferred to put the cap on the Normandy.

The former president now lives almost a recluse in the rue de Tournon to the ground floor of the mansion placed at his disposal by his friend’s unwavering, François Pinault. Six carers took turns with him. Only a few intimate friends, among whom the brothers and sisters of Bernadette Chirac, or the chief rabbi Khaïm Korsia, are allowed to visit him regularly. Her daughter Claude is there every day from 9 o’clock in the morning. “She takes care of the menus with the cook from his parents, checks the dosages of their medications, and to ensure that they intersect at least at meal time because they live at very different rates”, says the journalist and writer Arnaud Ardoin, author of “the President, the night comes falling” (Cherche-midi). In his book, he also reveals that the head of State has been hospitalized in the greatest secrecy, in October 2015, to be absorbed inadvertently drug antagonists (tranquillizers and sleeping pills). He has collected the testimony of Daniel, the former deputy chief of staff of Jacques Chirac at the Elysée in 1995. A man of the shadows that fade in the wake of the future president of the Republic, as early as the year 70, and to which Claude Chirac has appealed in 2013 to accompany, to stimulate his father once the sphere of power left. Faithful among the faithful, he died last July of a heart attack.

Through the narrative of the latter, one discovers a Jacques Chirac in the moments of clarity more and more rare. Sanglotant in front of the coffin of his daughter, Laurence,overwhelmed by emotion, but forgetting the afternoon of the same drama that had enfolded his clan. A man who makes more effort to listen to his interlocutors, but that reacts to its contrepèteries favorite. As he enjoys yet a reflection of his friend Daniel, and tells about a statue of the virgin enthroned on a small table in his room : ” President, it is a miracle that this lady is still in your room… “. According to the narrator his fate to elude him. “Il has spent her life trying not to impose things,” notes Arnaud Ardoin. His father, the first, returns into the right path when it is dream adventurer or sailor over the long run, it must then be freed of the cup of advisors, Marie-France Garaud and Pierre Juillet. Women have finally been as a terra incognita, to conquer, to escape his wife, to which he always comes back, however… “

For a long time, Jacques Chirac, anxious to preserve his freedom and to get out of the part allotted to him, hid his immense culture. If today everyone knows her passion for the arts first, and for civilizations buried, some secrets remain deeply buried. In the survey detailed that it book, Arnaud Ardoin in explores some.

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Photo credits : Patrick Kovarik/AP/SIPA

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