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He was the youngest president France had ever elected.
Elegant. Brilliant. Ambitious.
When Valéry Giscard d'Estaing won the presidency in 1974 at just forty-eight, he promised to transform France. Society would become more liberal. Europe would become stronger. Politics would become modern.
And for a moment, it worked.
He legalized abortion through the historic Simone Veil law. Lowered the voting age to eighteen. Reinvented political communication through television. Built the foundations of today's European leadership with Germany and helped create the G7.
But history had other plans.
Oil shocks shattered the global economy. Political rivals rose from within his own camp. Media scandals eroded his authority. And in 1981, the presidency slipped from his hands to François Mitterrand.
In this gripping political biography, Julien Peltier tells the story of the most intellectual president of the Fifth Republic — a man who tried to modernize France faster than history would allow.
From technocratic prodigy to defeated reformer, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: The Modern President reveals the ambitions, rivalries, crises, and ideas that reshaped France in the turbulent 1970s.
Part political drama, part intellectual portrait, this book explores the presidency that closed the era of postwar prosperity and opened the age of modern politics.
The third volume in the sweeping historical series The Men Who Held the Keys, chronicling the presidents of the French Fifth Republic.
