By , PARIS (Reuters) - Former President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, who championed European integration and helped modernise French society in the 1970s, has died at the age of 94 after contracting COVID-19.Slideshow Giscard’s foundation said he passed away in his family home in the Loir-et-Cher region of central France. He had been admitted to hospital in September with respiratory complications, and was hospitalised again in mid-November.His funeral will be an intimate family affair, the Valery Giscard d’Estaing Foundation said on Twitter.Giscard was elected president in 1974 at the age of...…By , PARIS (Reuters) - Former President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, who championed European integration and helped modernise French society in the 1970s, has died at the age of 94 after contracting COVID-19.Slideshow Giscard’s foundation said he passed away in his family home in the Loir-et-Cher region of central France. He had been admitted to hospital in September with respiratory complications, and was hospitalised again in mid-November.His funeral will be an intimate family affair, the Valery Giscard d’Estaing Foundation said on Twitter.Giscard was elected president in 1974 at the age of...WW…