Anh Dao Traxel (Vietnamese spellingThe Vietnamese alphabet has the following 29 letters, in collating order:Vietnamese also uses the ten digraphs and one trigraph below.These groups were formerly considered single letters and are treated as such in older dictionaries...
: Anh Đào Traxel, born Dương Anh Đào) (c. 1958) in
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is the foster daughter of former French President
Jacques ChiracJacques René Chirac served as the President of France from 17 May 1995 until 16 May 2007. As President he also served as an ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French Légion d'honneur. Chirac was the second-longest serving President of France , behind François Mitterrand...
. She was a
boat peopleBoat people is a term that usually refers to illegal immigrants or asylum seekers who emigrate en masse in boats that are sometimes old and crudely made, rendering them unseaworthy and unsafe...
refugee, and met Jacques Chirac at
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in 1979. He told her "Don’t cry, ma chérie. You are coming home with us" and took her home. She was then 21 and her adoptive father was 47.*
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1701939,00.html
She spent two years in the home of the Chiracs.
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Anh Dao Traxel (Vietnamese spellingThe Vietnamese alphabet has the following 29 letters, in collating order:Vietnamese also uses the ten digraphs and one trigraph below.These groups were formerly considered single letters and are treated as such in older dictionaries...
: Anh Đào Traxel, born Dương Anh Đào) (c. 1958) in
South VietnamSouth Vietnam refers to a state which governed southern Vietnam until 1975. It received international recognition in 1950 as the State of Vietnam and later as the “Republic of Vietnam” . Its capital was Saigon...
is the foster daughter of former French President
Jacques ChiracJacques René Chirac served as the President of France from 17 May 1995 until 16 May 2007. As President he also served as an ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French Légion d'honneur. Chirac was the second-longest serving President of France , behind François Mitterrand...
. She was a
boat peopleBoat people is a term that usually refers to illegal immigrants or asylum seekers who emigrate en masse in boats that are sometimes old and crudely made, rendering them unseaworthy and unsafe...
refugee, and met Jacques Chirac at
Roissy AirportParis-Charles de Gaulle Airport , also known as Roissy Airport , in the Paris area, is one of the world's principal aviation centres, as well as France's main airport. It is named after Charles de Gaulle , leader of the Free French Forces and founder of the French Fifth Republic...
in 1979. He told her "Don’t cry, ma chérie. You are coming home with us" and took her home. She was then 21 and her adoptive father was 47.*
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1701939,00.html
She spent two years in the home of the Chiracs. 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. 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).
Foreign honours
- Commandeur de l'Étoile de Mohéli (Comoros
The Comoros , officially the Union of the Comoros is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa, on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, between northern Madagascar and northeastern Mozambique...
)
- Chevalier de l'Étoile de la Grande Comore (dite Saïd Ali).
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