by President  Valéry Giscard d'Estaing  in 1975 and served until the following year, when he resigned from the army. From 1978–1988 Bigeard sat in the  National Assembly  as deputy for the region of  Meurthe-et-Moselle . Death Bigeard died on 18 June 2010 at his home in Toul. He was accorded full military