Valéry Giscard d’Estaing Siblings: A Closer Look at the Former French President’s Family Tree
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Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d’Estaing was a French statesman born on 2 February 1926 in Koblenz, Germany, during the French occupation of the Rhineland, where his father served as a high-ranking financial official.
He died on 2 December 2020 in Authon, Loir-et-Cher, at the age of 94.
He belonged to a prominent bourgeois family with political and administrative ties; his father, Edmond Giscard d’Estaing (1894–1982), was an inspector of finances and economist who legally added “d’Estaing” to the family name in 1922, while his mother, May Bardoux, came from a lineage that included senators and a former minister of public education.