PARIS, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday evening declared Dec. 9 a day of national mourning for late president Valery Giscard d'Estaing.
"I belong to a generation that was born under his presidency, and that, no doubt, has not always understood to what extent Valery Giscard d'Estaing had changed France for it," Macron said in a televised speech paying tribute to the late president.
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