d'Estaing

If my parents had named me something incredibly cool right off the bat, like Diocletian or Xerxes or Fenelon de la Vieille-Scaramouche d'Estaing or even Zorro, there's just no telling how great my career might have turned out.

Wotan, Your Double-Skim Latte Is Ready Joe Queenan 2011

The last name of Henri Giscard d'Estaing , chief executive of Club Mediterranée SA, was misspelled d'Etaing in a Marketplace article Wednesday about overseas investments by China's Fosun Group.

Corrections & Amplifications 2011

Giscard d'Estaing's drivesFrance's debonair leader between 1974 and 1981 was, by comparison, a less legendary extra-marital lover, but his affairs were nonetheless known to, and studiously ignored by, the media – except, of course, the night in his first year in power when, having borrowed the Ferrari of his film director friend Roger Vadim, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing crashed into a milk float on his way back to the Elysée Palace.

How Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest awoke a dormant anger in the heart of France's women 2011

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Club Med's Henry Giscard d'Estaing, right, celebrates the signing of a partnership agreement with Fosun in June 2010.

China Turns Investment Eye to Europe Aaron Back 2012

How the hell did Giscard d'Estaing know what was going to happen in 15 years time?

The EUSSR Not a sheep 2009

Sébastien Véronèse Truffle soup V.G.E., the dish created in 1975 for then French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing When the army was demobilized, Mr. Bocuse went to work in the kitchen of a local large private house that had access to luxurious black-market products.

Chef Paul Bocuse Harks Back to His Youth Jemima Sissons 2011

Mr. Giscard d'Estaing said he believes U.S. ski customers will be willing to pay Club Med's higher rates—which range between $2,500 and $3,500 per person per week at its European resorts—because the charges include lift tickets, ski lessons and other activities at its hotels.

Club Med Looks West for Fresh Powder Kris Hudson 2012

Club Med Chairman and CEO Henri Giscard d'Estaing , son of former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, said he envisions most guests at its ski U.S. resorts will be American, with the balance being Europeans and others who have skied at Club Med's resorts in the Alps.

Club Med Looks West for Fresh Powder Kris Hudson 2012

"We have the ability to attract customers from all around the world," Mr. Giscard d'Estaing said.

Club Med Looks West for Fresh Powder Kris Hudson 2012

Reuters/STR New Lévy in 1978 after a meeting with then-President Valery Giscard d'Estaing at Paris' Palais de l'Elysee I know a writer builds three things of unequal importance: He builds a persona, a life, a work.

French Philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy On Style and Why People Hate Him 2011