PARIS: Former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who led his country into a new modern era and onto a firmly pro-European path, died late Wednesday of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), his family said.
Giscard, who had been in hospital several times in the last months for heart problems, died "surrounded by his family" at the family home in the Loire region.
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