Former French prime minister Édouard Balladur dies at 97

Former French prime minister Édouard Balladur has died at the age of ninety-seven, France 24 reports. He led France's government from nineteen ninety-three to nineteen ninety-five, serving alongside socialist president François Mitterrand during a period of political power-sharing known as cohabitation.

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