Anh Dao Traxel is the foster daughter of French President Jacques Chirac. She was a boat people refugee, and met Jacques Chirac at Roissy Airport in 1979. He told her "Don’t cry, ma chérie. You are coming home with us" and took her home. She was then 21. A foster parent is an adult guardian to whom one or more children have been legally entrusted. ... â–¶ (help· info), (born November 29, 1932 in Paris) is a French politician who is currently President of the French Republic. ... Boat people is a term (usually) referring to impoverished illegal immigrants or asylum seekers, who arrive in masse in old or crudely-made boats. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...
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).
Further reading
Mrs Traxel will publish her autobiography, La Fille de Cœur (ISBN 2080688944) in the beginning of 2006.
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