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| Valery Giscard d'Estaing served as the president of France from 1974 to 1981.  He was a supporter of nuclear power and on June 26, 1980, announced that France had developed and tested a neutron bomb.  He lowered France's voting age to 18 and implemented more liberal policies regarding abortion and divorce.  Controversy about a gift he accepted from the Central African Empire led to his defeat in the 1981 election. | 
 
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Francois Mitterand
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