- Born
- Died
- Birth nameBernadette Thérèse Marie Chodron de Courcel
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Bernadette Chirac was born on May 18, 1933 in Paris, France. She was married to Jacques Chirac. She died on June 5, 2026 in Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
- SpouseJacques Chirac(March 16, 1956 - September 26, 2019) (his death, 2 children)
- Children
- Has her look-alike puppet in the French show Les Guignols de l'info (1988).
- First Lady of France, and, due to Jacques Chirac's position, Princess of Andorra since 17 May 1995.
- Studied at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, where she got to know her husband.
- Became very popular with the French public, notably as the head of the Pièces Jaunes (Yellow Coins) campaign to benefit hospitalised children.
- France's only first lady to have held political office in her own right, as a general councillor for the Corrèze department in central France, where she served from 1979 to 2015.
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