Anh Dao Traxel

Anh Dao Traxel is the foster daughter of French President Jacques Chirac. She was a boat people refugee, and met Jacques Chirac at Orly Airport in 1979. He told her "Don?t cry, ma chérie. You are coming home with us" and took her home.

Related Topics:
Foster - Jacques Chirac - Boat people - Orly Airport - 1979

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She was then 21.

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She spent two years in the home of the Chiracs.

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Mrs Traxel was married twice. Her second husband, Marc Traxel, is a police lieutenant. She has three children, Bernard-Jacques, Laurence-Claude and Jacques. The children call Jacques Chirac Grandpa.

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She is now the President of a European association of assistance to the families of civil servants who died during their service (Étoile européenne du dévouement civil et militaire).

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