France's Former President Giscard d'Estaing Is Dead

France's former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing died on Wednesday at the age of 94.

D'Estaing died from an illness linked to coronavirus at his home in Loir-et-Cher.

Funeral plans have not been announced, as no date has been set.

Prior to his demise, d'Estaing was hospitalised for five months in the town of Tours but was discharged mid-November.

Between 1974 and 1981, he served as a liberal president of France. 

He was dubbed a technocrat owing to his aristocratic background.

In 1981, he lost the election to Francois Mitterrand, who was a socialist, with attempts to return to power proving abortive.

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D'Estaing led the talks that birthed the financial consolidation of European countries to form the Euro.

His record was not without a scandal, as he was accused of sexual assault by a reporter for WDR, a German public-broadcasting institution.

The reporter alleged that d'Estaing groped her buttocks after an interview conducted in Paris in 2018.