# Jacques Chirac said "Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third-world power."
*Canonical page:* https://truthscore.com/claim/jacques-chirac-said-without-africa-france-will-slide-down-into-the-rank--7315927a
*Numbers under lens:* **Evidence-weighted** (`log-odds@1`)
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Jacques Chirac said "Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third-world power."

## Voices

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## Sources

- [Mitterrand warned that if France ever lost her de facto African colonies, then France would be permanently poor. Later Chirac repeated this warning. Well now…](https://truthscore.com/source/67039d45)