The Gaullists, under Mr Sarkozy and his predecessor, Jacques Chirac, have held the presidency since 1995.
These failures were crystallised in President Jacques Chirac's stubborn opposition to the American-led war in Iraq.
This prompted a shocked electorate to flock to President Jacques Chirac in the run-off.
Even Jacques Chirac, the French president, has been downplaying his differences with Mr Bush.
Powell is due to meet both Jospin and French President Jacques Chirac while in France.
He was pardoned by President Jacques Chirac because of his distinguished service to French sport.
President Jacques Chirac telephoned him to assure him that the affair would be resolved.
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She is clearly a woman to watch, as President Jacques Chirac, an admirer, is aware.
Tony Blair and George Bush were right to ignore Jacques Chirac's grandstanding and liberate Iraq anyway.
As Jacques Chirac has demonstrated lately, France's leaders also tend to plough ahead regardless.
France's president, Jacques Chirac, has said he is dismayed at the way the crisis is developing.
Since Jacques Chirac became president in 1995, the civil-service payroll has grown by 13%, to 5m.
French President Jacques Chirac said the decision had been postponed "for a few days".
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Hence, too, the decision by President Jacques Chirac to set up a commission on secularism.
European leaders, not least, Jacques Chirac and Helmut Kohl, have recently flocked the other way.
The French president, Jacques Chirac, said that Turkey must recognise Cyprus before starting talks.
French fantasies of Paris becoming a superpower, with Jacques Chirac as a modern Sun King, are over.
On April 21, President Jacques Chirac called a snap election, ten months ahead of the regular schedule.
Sarkozy's predecessor Jacques Chirac was a fierce critic of the 2003 military offensive that toppled Saddam Hussein.
But France's president, Jacques Chirac, has been campaigning for more than a year for it to go.
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Last summer, he astonished even himself by winning the snap general election called by President Jacques Chirac.
When Jacques Chirac beat Mr Balladur to the presidency, he reportedly ordered the cancellation of the payments.
Both George Bush and Jacques Chirac believe in cutting taxes irrespective of the effect on the deficit.
In 1996, President Jacques Chirac announced France would end military conscription from 1997, earlier than previously planned.
In the fall-out between George Bush and Jacques Chirac a year ago, French-bashing in America turned harsh.
French President Jacques Chirac has previously warned that U.S. plans are greatly reminiscent of the Cold War attitude.
Tension has been high since French President Jacques Chirac threatened to use his country's veto in the U.N.
Nonetheless, the summit did bring some signs of rapprochement between Jacques Chirac, the French president, and Mr Blair.
However, by 1995, when Jacques Chirac became president, the policy and the style were beginning to look thin.
On the other hand, France's president, Jacques Chirac, admits that the summit should have done more for Turkey.
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