PARIS (Reuters) – Former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing has died, France’s Europe 1 radio reported on Wednesday.
Giscard, who was 94 and was France’s leader from 1974 to 1981, had recently been hospitalised in Tours, in western France.
He was known for steering a modernisation of French society during his presidency, including allowing divorce by mutual consent and legalising abortion, and was one of the architects of European integration.
(Reporting by Sarah White; Editing by Chris Reese and Rosalba O’Brien)
