The one called “Madame” at the Palais Rohan, where she had a small office and managed part of the city's cultural affairs – she had notably influenced the creation of the CAPC, the city's contemporary art museum , entrusted to Jean-Louis Froment, or helped to carry out the legendary Sigma festival – among other charitable or social actions (she for example chaired the Foundation for drug addiction and youth prevention in the 1990s), Micheline Chaban-Delmas was the third wife of Jacques Chaban-Delmas, the historic mayor of Bordeaux from 1947 to 1995, with whom she married in August 1970.
“Her commitment to young people was also a strong marker of her action, which went well beyond the sole status of wife of the mayor of Bordeaux”, greets the municipal elected official and grandson of the former mayor, Guillaume Chaban -Delmas. “She brought a lot to the city and its influence. »
With Prince Charles, visiting Bordeaux on May 9, 1977.
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Since the death of the “Duke of Aquitaine”, in Bordeaux, she has often participated in evenings or conferences evoking her husband, rarely speaking but guarantor of Chaban's political legacy. She was even in the front row during the coronation of Nicolas Sarkozy as president of the UMP in January 2007.
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During the inauguration of the statue of Jacques Chaban-Delmas on November 12, 2012, Place Pey-Berland.
“So passionate about her time,” greeted her friend the TV host Cyril Viguier a few years ago, Micheline Chaban-Delmas also lived in a worldly world. In 2012, Karl Lagerfeld photographed her for the book “La Petite Veste noire”, this cult piece from Chanel: “First of all, the good woman is quite incredible and I loved the character”, greeted the couturier at the time. photographer. “She arrived with no makeup, no hair, we took the photo in five minutes and she left…”
