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Former French President Jacques Chirac dies at 86
Jacques Chirac led France as a President from 1995 to 2007 and was also mayor of Paris for 18 years
Frenchwoman was world’s oldest person – no doubts about it
Calment, who used to joke that God must have forgotten her, died in southern France in 1997, setting a longevity record that has been questioned