Édouard Balladur, Embattled French Prime Minister, Dies at 97
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- His time in office coincided with France’s fraught role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the corruption scandal known as the Karachi affair.S1
- Former secretary general of the Elysée under Georges Pompidou, negotiator of the Grenelle Agreements in 1968 and head of François Mitterrand's government in 1993, he failed to win the presidential elections of 1995 against Jacques Chirac. This key figure of Fr...S2
- 🔴 Former French prime minister Édouard Balladur dies at 97S3
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Édouard Balladur, Embattled French Prime Minister, Dies at 97
His time in office coincided with France’s fraught role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the corruption scandal known as the Karachi affair.
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Edouard Balladur, former French prime minister, dies at age 97
Former secretary general of the Elysée under Georges Pompidou, negotiator of the Grenelle Agreements in 1968 and head of François Mitterrand's government in 1993, he failed to win…
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Published Aug 31, 2026
What to know
- His time in office coincided with France’s fraught role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the corruption scandal known as the Karachi affair.S1
- Former secretary general of the Elysée under Georges Pompidou, negotiator of the Grenelle Agreements in 1968 and head of François Mitterrand's government in 1993, he failed to win the presidential elections of 1995 against Jacques Chirac. This key figure of Fr...S2
- 🔴 Former French prime minister Édouard Balladur dies at 97S3
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