EDUCATION

• Lycée Carnot and lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduate of the Paris Institut d'Etudes politiques and of the Harvard University Summer School (USA).

DECORATIONS

• Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur;
• Grand-Croix de l'Ordre national du Mérite;
• Croix de la Valeur militaire;
• Grand-Croix du Mérite de l'Ordre souverain de Malte;
• Chevalier du Mérite Agricole, des Arts et des Lettres, de l'Etoile Noire, du Mérite sportif, du Mérite Touristique;
• Médaille de l'Aéronautique.

CAREER

• 1957-1959 :
  Student at the Ecole nationale d'Administration;
• 1959 :
  Auditeur at the Cour des comptes (Audit Court);
• 1962 :
  Chargé de mission at the Government Secretariat-General;
• 1962 :
  Chargé de mission in the private office of M. Georges Pompidou, Prime Minister;
• 1965-1993 :
  Conseiller référendaire (public auditor) at the Cour des comptes;
• March 1965 to March 1977 :
  Member of the Sainte-Féréole (Corrèze) municipal council;
• March-May 1967 :
  National Assembly Deputy for the Corrèze;
• 1967-1968 :
  Minister of State for Social Affairs, with responsibility for Employment (government of M. Georges Pompidou);
• 1968 :
  Member of the Corrèze General Council for the canton of Meymac, re-elected in 1970 and 1976;
• 1968-1971 :
  Minister of State for the Economy and Finance (governments of Georges Pompidou, Maurice Couve de Murville and Jacques Chaban-Delmas);
• June 1968 - August 1968 :
  Union pour la Défense de la République - UDR - (Gaullist Party) Deputy for Corrèze;
• Since 1969 :
  Treasurer of the Fondation Georges Pompidou (a voluntary organization providing assistance particularly for the elderly and handicapped children);
• From 1970 to March 1979 :
  Chairman of the Corrèze General Council;
• 1971-1972 :
  Minister-Delegate, attached to the Prime Minister, with responsibility for relations with Parliament (government of Jacques Chaban-Delmas);
• 1972-1973 :
  Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (government of Pierre Messmer);
• 4 March 1973 - 5 May 1973 :
  Re-elected National Assembly Deputy for Corrèze;
• 1973-1974 :
  Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (government of Pierre Messmer);
• 1974 :
  Minister of the Interior (government of Pierre Messmer);
• 27 May 1974 :
  Appointed Prime Minister;
• December 1974 - June 1975 :
  Union des Démocrates pour la République (UDR, Gaullist Party) General Secretary;
• June 1975 :
  UDR Honorary General Secretary ;
• 25 August 1976 :
  Tenders his government's resignation;
• 1976 :
  Re-elected National Assembly Deputy for Corrèze, third constituency;
• 5 December 1976 :
  Elected Chairman of the Rassemblement pour la République - RPR - (Gaullist Party);
• 20 March 1977 :
  Elected Mayor of Paris;
• 12 March 1978 :
  Re-elected National Assembly Deputy for Corrèze (third constituency);
• 1 May 1979 :
  Elected Chairman of the Association internationale des Maires et Responsables des Capitales et Métropoles partiellement ou entièrement francophones - AIMF- (Mayors of French-speaking Cities Association);
• 10 June 1979 :
  Elected to the European Parliament (Défense des Intérêts de la France en Europe list). Resigned his seat in 1980;
• 14 June 1981 :
  Re-elected National Assembly Deputy for Corrèze, third constituency;
• 14 March 1982 :
  Re-elected member of the Corrèze General Council for the canton of Meymac;
• 20 March 1983 :
  Re-elected Mayor of Paris;
• 16 March 1986 :
  Re-elected National Assembly Deputy for Corrèze;
• 20 March 1986-10 May 1988 :
  Prime Minister (cohabitation);
• 5 June 1988 :
  Re-elected National Assembly Deputy for Corrèze ;
• 19 March 1989 :
  Re-elected Mayor of Paris;
• 11 February 1990 :
  Re-elected RPR Chairman;
• 7 March 1993 :
  Re-elected RPR Chairman;
• 28 March 1993 :
  Re-elected National Assembly Deputy for Corrèze;
• 12 November 1994 :
  Resigned as RPR Chairman;
• 7 May 1995 :
  Elected President of the French Republic on the second ballot with 15, 770,249 votes (52.64% of the votes cast) compared to 14,187,963 votes for Lionel Jospin;
• 15 May 1995 :
  Resigned as National Assembly Deputy for Corrèze;
• 16 May 1995 :
  Resigned as Mayor of Paris.

PUBLISHED WORKS

• Thesis at the Institut d'Etudes politiques : le Développement du port de la Nouvelle-Orléans (1954);
  
• Discours pour la France à l'heure du choix; La lueur de l'espérance : réflexion du soir pour le matin (1978);
  
• Une nouvelle France, Réflexions 1 (1994);
  
• La France pour Tous (1995)./.

Source: Presidency of the Republic Press Office

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