Jacques Chirac was a former president of France who served as mayor of Paris before entering the presidency. He became the first former president in modern times to be tried in court, in a case over "fake jobs" at the Paris town hall during his stint as mayor. In 2011 he was found guilty and given a suspended sentence. His successor Nicolas Sarkozy was later also convicted and jailed, continuing a pattern of judicial accountability for French ex-presidents.
Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.