PARIS -- Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 85, a former French premier who unsuccessfully sought to become his country's president in 1974, died Nov. 10 at his home here after a heart attack.

Jacques Pierre Michel Delmas - Chaban, a name he had had used in the Resistance, was added after the war - was born in Paris on March 7 1915. His father, a company director, ...

Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a former French prime minister remembered for his willingness to embrace social change despite the disapproval of fellow conservatives, has died.

The bridge is named after a Gaullist politician, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, who served for decades as Mayor of Bordeaux and was France's Prime Minister between 1969 and 1972.

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