Bernadette Chirac, the widow of former French president Jacques Chirac and a fixed point in her late husband's climb to the country's top political post, died on Saturday. She was 93.
Bernadette Chirac, the steel-willed former first lady of France who spent 12 years at the Élysée Palace from 1995 to 2007 beside President Jacques Chirac while building her own political power in rural Corrèze and turning a children’s hospital charity into a national institution, has died. She was 93.
