The Fifth Republic & Polorization of French Politics .... From 1976 to the early 1980s Chirac and the RPR altered the face of Gaullism. .... The Right coalition of the RPR and the UDF foundered on Chirac's ambition. .... (4694 19 )
France .... The Rassemblement pour la Republique (Rally for the Republic), or RPR, founded in 1976 by Jacques Chirac, espouses affinity with the ideas of the former .... (3527 14 )
Political Party Funding .... for candidates included the allocations guaranteed by the party: in 1988, Chirac received 40.3 per cent of his campaign funding from the RPR, and Mitterrand .... (8085 32 )