Jacques Chirac and Australia: je t'aime moi non plus

Then-French president Jacques Chirac in 2007.

Then-French president Jacques Chirac in 2007. Source: AAP

Jacques Chirac unleashed the most serious diplomatic crisis in the history of Franco-Australian relations by authorizing the resumption of nuclear tests in the Pacific. But he is also the foreign leader who offered the most beautiful setting for Aboriginal art by wearing the creation of the musée du quai Branly, in 2006.


 * Jacques Chirac shook the international community with his speech on the fate of the Earth: "Our house burns and we look elsewhere. Nature, mutilated, overexploited, can no longer recover and we refuse to admit it. "Correction, in our podcast the year 2012 is quoted, it is in fact the year 2002.

The aboriginal roof of the Quai Branly museum on video:

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