It’s certainly not a kill shot, but the re-election hopes of French President Nicolas Sarkozy have taken another groan-eliciting body check—this time from Elysée predecessor Jacques Chirac ...

Chirac's well-reported fury at Sarkozy's pro-American rhetoric during a U.S. visit in September 2006 indicates just how far Sarkozy is willing to go to distance himself from what he sees as the ...

The frontrunner in the French presidential race, Nicolas Sarkozy, has denied a deal to protect President Jacques Chirac from a corruption probe. Mr Sarkozy said the allegation in a weekly satirical ...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy Promises Change France's new conservative president, ... 2007 2:01 PM ET. ... Chirac was forced to bring Sarkozy into his cabinet as interior minister in 2002.

President Chirac did not attend but was represented by his wife, Bernadette. Just over half the UMP's 120,000 members took part in the vote, in which Mr Sarkozy stood against two rivals. The BBC's ...

Nicolas Sarkozy nearly yanked ... An official with the national gendarme service said the man lives in the Lot-et-Garonne region where the president ... Sarkozy's predecessor, Jacques Chirac, ...

When Nicolas Sarkozy takes over the French presidency on May 16, it will be with a mandate to govern. Sarkozy won the presidency this weekend in a 53 to 47 percent vote, with a turnout of 85 percent.

Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe are in a runoff for the presidential nomination of the Republican party in France. Former President Nicolas Sarkozy was third.

Chirac, Former Protege in ... Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Eleanor Beardsley reports. ... August 8, 2004 12:00 AM ET. Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday. Chirac, Former Protege in Spat.

Sarkozy’s predecessor, Jacques Chirac, a fellow conservative, is the only other president in modern French history to be convicted by a court. Chirac was found guilty of corruption in 2011, four ...

There has been very little love lost between Nicolas Sarkozy and his predecessor Jacques Chirac in recent years. They were once very close – so much so that when Sarkozy announced his intention ...