AS TODAY IS the eighty-fourth birthday of Monsieur Jacques René Chirac, I thought it’d be best to share a few images of the underappreciated fifth president of the Fifth Republic (not to mention sometime Mayor of Paris, Prime Minister of France, and Co-Prince of Andorra) doing the things he does best.
Being mayor of Paris
Having a cigarette
Dodging a Metro fare
Having a cigarette
Teaching machete-wielding skills
Having a cigarette
Napping aboard Concorde
Thinking of going outside for a cigarette
Making one of his occasional trips to the seventeenth century
Having a cigarette
Hanging out with Mother Teresa
Having a cigarette
Being Jacques Chirac
Having a cigarette.
He was ABSOLUTELY VILE and GHASTLY!
“Vlle and ghastly”? You mean French? We already knew that.
But his wife’s influence saved St Nicholas du Chardonnet for the traditionalists, so we should lift a glass to him at least for that.