Talk:Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

message: This article has a major gap. It does not mention anything from his education until he was elected president. Academic Challenger 03:06, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Noble?

message: Years ago before the 1995 presidential election I heard on the news that Giscard was seriously considering to run for the presidency again in 1995. Yet Giscard ended up not being a candidate at that election at all. So what made him decide not to run in 1995.--The Shadow Treasurer 03:54, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably that it would have cost a lot money to loose... Ericd 21:29, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  He was not candidate in 1995 because the most part of the UDF politicians supported Edouard Balladur. This one was a popular Prime Minister and, even if he came from the RPR, the majority of his ministers were UDF elects. At this moment, the UDF was not a party but a confederation of parties. The two main components were the Christian Democratic CDS and the Liberal Conservative PR. The CDS leader, François Bayrou, was Education Minister of Balladur and the PR leader, François Léotard was the Defense Minister of Balladur. Without troop behind him he could not win and he did not want another presidential defeat (after his 1981 crash). He took revenge on Balladur in supporting his old ennemy, Jacques Chirac.
N.a french 08:46, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no Presidential run in 1995? 

message: Could someone who knows French please add an IPA pronunciation of this name? --Grouse 13:01, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I second that notion. 12.149.39.84 12:14, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: :However, the economic downturn that followed the 1973 energy crisis, marking the end of the "thirty glorious years" after World War II, combined the official discourse that the "end the tunnel was near", while the presidency was facing opposition on both sides with the unification of the left by François Mitterrand and the rise of up-and-comer Jacques Chirac who resurrected Gaullism on a right-wing opposition line, and bad public relations caused his unpopularity to grow at the end of his term, and he failed to secure re-election in 1981.
That has to be one of the longest sentences I have ever read... It's unacceptably POV (at least without sources), too. DWaterson 23:26, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Punctuation and grammar

message: I added a link of national TV archiv institute (INA) about his farewell to the nation. Even if this declaration is considered as pathetical (or as a bit ridiculous), it shows that VGE was sure to come back and wanted to watch to the french the hole his departure will provoke. It reveals a part of his personality.
*Before considering him as a lunatic, please keep in mind that at that time a lot of people, including current president Jacques Chirac, thought that what they called the Socialist experience would be short lived. Hektor 10:41, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Farewell of VGE to the nation in May 1981 

message: Picture and blazon should be included if uncopyrighted image can be found or produced.  --Daniel C. Boyer 18:49, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Arms

message: Can we have more citations/references for the Knight/Order of Malta assertion? Are there any newspaper pieces that can be found for this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.170.24.149 (talk) 18:48, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Knight of Malta? 

message: In ZENIT, a highly respected Catholic magazine, it says that he is a freemason. And also a search on Google Books returns many results regarding this. I think we should mention it somewhere in the article, but I'm not sure where abouts. - Yorkshirian (talk) 20:27, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Freemasonry?

message: I do not know to what extent this belongs in the article, but, in 1964 VGE enacted legislation to restrict billboards along roadways. This forced Jean-Claude Decaux out of the billboard business; and because of that, that same year, Decaux founded one of the most successful advertising companies ever to exist, JCDecaux. So it's kind of interesting but does it belong here? I don't have a very reliable looking source -- here is what I have. http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/59/JCDecaux-S-A.html Dranorter (talk) 13:53, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Billboard ban 

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message: I know IPA has a lot of supporters on here, but to most people those symbols are gibberish, and they have a better chance of interpreting the French phonetics. Can someone put in a rough rendering of how to say this in English phonetics, please, not just IPA hieroglyphics. 2A01:4C8:1407:621F:991:E8F3:C190:D084 (talk) 12:35, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need something better than IPA