Former French president hospitalised with lung infection

                               

Former French president Jacques Chirac, 83, was admitted to hospital on Sunday with a lung infection, his son-in-law said.

Chirac who led France from 1995 to 2007, was “hospitalised this morning at Pitie-Salpetriere (hospital in Paris) to be treated for a lung infection,” Frederic Salat-Baroux, his son-in-law, told AFP, adding the former president would remain there in the coming days. A source close to the former president confirmed that he was conscious.The popular ex-president had just returned from a visit to Morocco, according to Salat-Baroux.

Chirac, who served two terms as head of state, is probably best remembered internationally for his opposition to the  US military intervention in Iraq in 2003.
A small stroke while in office in 2005 weakened him, and he is now rarely seen in public.