Editing Jacques Chirac (section)

== Post-presidency and death ==
[[File:JacquesChiracDinard.JPG|thumb|right|Chirac in [[Saint-Tropez]], 2010]]
Shortly after leaving office, he launched the [[Fondation Chirac]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jyHbiQwT8A2VnasPh30A3G8kbt3w |title=Chirac launches foundation 'to awaken consciences' |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=8 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607120523/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jyHbiQwT8A2VnasPh30A3G8kbt3w |archive-date= 7 June 2013 }}</ref> in June 2008. Since then it has been striving for peace through five advocacy programmes: conflict prevention, access to water and sanitation, access to quality medicines and healthcare, access to land resources, and preservation of cultural diversity. It supports field projects that involve local people and provide concrete and innovative solutions. Chirac chaired the jury for the Prize for Conflict Prevention awarded every year by his foundation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fondationchirac.eu/en/the-fondation-chirac-prize-for-conflict-prevention/|title=Fondation Chirac " The Fondation Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention|date=24 June 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090624073856/http://www.fondationchirac.eu/en/the-fondation-chirac-prize-for-conflict-prevention/|archive-date=24 June 2009}}</ref>

As a former president of France, he was entitled to a lifetime pension<!-- Of how much? --> and personal security protection, and was an ''ex officio'' member for life of the [[Constitutional Council (France)|Constitutional Council]].<ref name="CNN Chirac found guilty">[http://articles.cnn.com/2011-12-15/world/world_europe_france-chirac_1_chirac-francois-hollande-corruption-charges?_s=PM:EUROPE "Chirac found guilty on corruption charges"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216151758/http://articles.cnn.com/2011-12-15/world/world_europe_france-chirac_1_chirac-francois-hollande-corruption-charges?_s=PM:EUROPE |date=16 December 2011 }}, CNN, 15 December 2011.</ref> He sat for the first time on the council on 15 November 2007, six months after leaving the presidency. Immediately after Sarkozy's victory, Chirac moved into a {{convert|180|sqm|adj=on}} [[duplex (building)|duplex]] on the {{lang|fr|[[Quai Voltaire]]|italic=no}} in Paris lent to him by the family of former Lebanese prime minister [[Rafik Hariri]]. During the Didier Schuller affair, the latter accused Hariri of having participated in illegal funding of the [[Rally for the Republic|RPR]]'s political campaigns, but the judge closed the case without further investigations.<ref>[http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/politiques/250314.FR.php Chirac trouve un point de chute à Paris chez la famille Hariri] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509090154/http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/politiques/250314.FR.php |date=9 May 2008 }}, ''[[Libération]]'', 27 April 2007 {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

In Volume 2 of his memoirs published in June 2011, Chirac mocked his successor [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] as "irritable, rash, impetuous, disloyal, ungrateful, and un-French".<ref name=FE>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13710626 "France election 2012: Chirac mocks Sarkozy in memoirs"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101125627/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13710626 |date=1 January 2018 }}, BBC. 9 June 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011</ref><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/impetuous-disloyal-and-unfrench-chirac-attempts-coup-de-grace-on-sarkozy-2294940.html "'Impetuous, disloyal, and un-French': Chirac attempts coup de grace on Sarkozy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111124622/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/impetuous-disloyal-and-unfrench-chirac-attempts-coup-de-grace-on-sarkozy-2294940.html |date=11 November 2012 }}, John Lichfield. 9 June 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011</ref> Chirac wrote that he considered firing Sarkozy previously, and conceded responsibility in allowing [[Jean-Marie Le Pen]] to advance in 2002.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8564184/Jacques-Chirac-breaks-four-year-silence-on-Nicolas-Sarkozy-to-criticise-French-president.html "Jacques Chirac breaks four-year silence on Nicolas Sarkozy to criticise French president"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225223634/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8564184/Jacques-Chirac-breaks-four-year-silence-on-Nicolas-Sarkozy-to-criticise-French-president.html |date=25 December 2017 }}, Henry Samuel. ''The Telegraph''. 9 June 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011</ref> A poll conducted in 2010 suggested Chirac was the most admired political figure in France, while Sarkozy was 32nd.<ref name=FE />

On 11 April 2008, Chirac's office announced that he had undergone successful surgery to fit a [[pacemaker]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2008-04-11|title=France's Chirac gets pacemaker|language=en-GB|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7343096.stm|access-date=2021-10-13|archive-date=27 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027193221/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7343096.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>

Chirac suffered from frail health and memory loss in later life. In February 2014 he was admitted to hospital because of pains related to [[gout]].<ref>BBC News, 24 17 February 2014</ref><ref>{{cite news |editor-last=Marszal |editor-first=Andrew |date=17 February 2014 |title=Jacques Chirac in hospital with 'acute gout' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10645012/Jacques-Chirac-hospitalised-with-acute-gout.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |access-date=10 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324093236/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10645012/Jacques-Chirac-hospitalised-with-acute-gout.html |archive-date=24 March 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> On 10 December 2015, Chirac was hospitalised in Paris for undisclosed reasons, although his state of health did not "give any cause for concern", he remained for about a week in [[Intensive Care Unit|ICU]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/10/europe/france-jacques-chirac-hospitalized/index.html|title=Former French President Jacques Chirac Hospitalized|publisher=CNN|access-date=11 December 2015|date=10 December 2015|author=Tim Hume|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211070108/http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/10/europe/france-jacques-chirac-hospitalized/index.html|archive-date=11 December 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> According to his son-in-law [[Frederic Salat-Baroux]], Chirac was again hospitalised in Paris with a [[lung infection]] on 18 September 2016.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/18/world/former-french-president-jacques-chirac-hospitalized-lung-infection/|title=Former French President Jacques Chirac is hospitalized with lung infection|work=The Japan Times|access-date=18 September 2016|date=18 September 2016|agency=Agence France-Presse|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918120631/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/18/world/former-french-president-jacques-chirac-hospitalized-lung-infection/#.V97Q9IX6w9A|archive-date=18 September 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Death and state funeral===
[[File:20191002 120336 14995 Grabstätte Jacques Chirac.jpg|thumb|Chirac's grave in Montparnasse Cemetery, October 2019]]
Chirac died at his home in the [[6th arrondissement of Paris]] on 26 September 2019, surrounded by his family.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/obituaries/jacques-chirac-dead.html|title = Jacques Chirac, French President Who Championed European Identity, Is Dead at 86|work = [[The New York Times]]|date = 26 September 2019|access-date = 26 September 2019|last1 = Clarity|first1 = James F.|last2 = Tagliabue|first2 = John|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190926102008/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/obituaries/jacques-chirac-dead.html|archive-date = 26 September 2019|url-status = live}}</ref> A [[requiem mass]] was held at [[Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris|Saint-Sulpice]] on 30 September, celebrated by [[Michel Aupetit]], [[Archbishop of Paris]], and attended by representatives from about 175 countries, included 69 past and present heads of state, government and international organisations. Notable names included [[António Guterres]], [[Jean-Claude Juncker]], [[Jens Stoltenberg]], [[Vladimir Putin]], [[Sergio Mattarella]], [[Frank-Walter Steinmeier]], [[Charles Michel]], [[Viktor Orbán]], [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]], [[Saad Hariri]], [[Borut Pahor]], [[Salome Zourabichvili]], [[Tony Blair]], [[Jean Chrétien]], [[Vaira Vike-Freiberga]], [[Bill Clinton]], [[Hamid Karzai]], [[Dai Bingguo]]  plus many ministers.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}

The day was declared a [[national day of mourning]] in France and a minute of silence was held nationwide at 15:00. Following the public ceremony, Chirac was buried at [[Montparnasse Cemetery]], with only close family in attendance. Andorra announced three days of national mourning.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://all-andorra.com/andorran-government-announces-three-day-national-mourning-over-jacques-chiracs-death/ | title=Andorran government announces three-day national mourning over Jacques Chirac's death |work=All Andorra | date=27 September 2019 }}</ref> Lebanon declared the day of the ex-president's funeral national day of mourning.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://yalibnan.com/2019/09/28/pm-hariri-declares-day-of-mourning-for-chirac-friend-of-lebanon/ |title=PM Hariri declares day of mourning for Chirac 'friend of Lebanon' |publisher=Ya Libnan |date=2019-09-28 |access-date=2022-05-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/d/breaking-news/471840/lebanon-declares-monday-a-national-day-of-mourning/en | title=Lebanon declares Monday a national day of mourning for Chirac }}</ref>