French President Francois Hollande to be R-Day chief guest

November 21, 2015 12:56

French President Francois Hollande will be the chief guest at the 2016 Republic Day in India. Hollande, would be the fourth French leader to be chief guest at the R-Day ceremony since 1976.

Jacques Chirac has been chief guest twice '" in 1976, as prime minister, and in 1998, as President.

President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, in 1980, and President Nicolas Sarkozy, in 2008, were also chief guests.

Every French president since d'Estaing has visited India, some like Francois Mitterrand (in 1981 and 1989) and Chirac (in 1998 and 2006) twice. But Hollande will be the first to visit India twice in a single term.

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