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Jacques René Chirac ( 29 November 1932 ) is a French politician , who served as the President of ___MASK3___ and " ex officio " Co - Prince of Andorra from 1995 to 2007 . Chirac served as Prime Minister of ___MASK3___ from 1974 to 1976 , from 1986 to 1988 , and as the Mayor of ___MASK25___ from 1977 to 1995 . ___MASK3___ , officially the ___MASK41___ , is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area of ___MASK3___ extends from the Mediterranean ___MASK31___ to the English Channel and the North ___MASK31___ , and from the Rhine to the ___MASK8___ . Overseas ___MASK3___ include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . ___MASK3___ spans and had a total population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017 . It is a unitary semi - presidential republic with the capital in ___MASK25___ , the country ' s largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban centres include Marseille , Lyon , Lille , Nice , Toulouse and Bordeaux . ___MASK5___ - Atlantique ( formerly " ___MASK5___ - Inférieure ") is a department on the west coast of ___MASK3___ named after the ___MASK5___ River and the ___MASK8___ . The ___MASK8___ is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". The ___MASK87___ for a Popular Movement (; UMP ) was a centre - right political party in ___MASK3___ that was one of the two major contemporary political parties in ___MASK3___ along with the centre - left Socialist Party ( PS ). The UMP was formed in 2002 as a merger of several centre - right parties under the leadership of President Jacques Chirac . In May 2015 , the party was renamed and succeeded by the Republicans (""). Monique Papon ( born 5 October 1934 ) is a member of the Senate of ___MASK3___ , representing the Loire - Atlantique department . She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement ; currently she serves as a vice - president of the Senate . A member of the political bureau of the Union pour la démocratie française since 1995 , she was elected senator September 2001 , in second position on the list led by André Trillard . She rejoined the Union for a Popular Movement on that date . Defeated in her canton of Nantes in the elections of 2004 , she carried out the function of secretary of the French Senate until October 2008 , when she was elected Vice President of the High Assembly .