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2 Dec, 7 tweets, 5 min read

#BREAKING Former French president Giscard d'Estaing has died, entourage says

#BREAKING France's Giscard d'Estaing died as a result of Covid-19, says family

#UPDATE Former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who led his country into a new modern era and onto a firmly pro-European path, died of Covid-19, his family said u.afp.com/3vkW

#BREAKING Merkel mourns loss of 'great European' in Giscard d'Estaing

#UPDATE France on Thursday mourned its former president Valery Giscard d'Estaing after he died from Covid-19 aged 94, with tributes hailing him as an ambitious social reformer and great European statesman
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#BREAKING UK PM hails Giscard d'Estaing as 'great moderniser' of France

#UPDATE German Chancellor Angela Merkel mourned the loss of a "great European" while British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called Giscard a "hugely important figure in modernising France" u.afp.com/3vc8

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