Alternate French presidents

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My guess (just guess):

Charles de Gaulle (1959-1966), did not run for reelection
Georges Pompidou (1966-1973), did not run for reelection due to poor health
Jacques Chaban-Delmas (1973-1980), defeated
Francois Miterrand (1980-1994)
Michel Rocard (1994-2006), second term just five years
Dominique de Villepin (2006-present)

Nothing special, wait for your ideas

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My guess (just guess):

Charles de Gaulle (1959-1966), did not run for reelection
Georges Pompidou (1966-1973), did not run for reelection due to poor health
Jacques Chaban-Delmas (1973-1980), defeated
Francois Miterrand (1980-1994)
Michel Rocard (1994-2006), second term just five years
Dominique de Villepin (2006-present)

Nothing special, wait for your ideas

In your series, which is a realistic one until 1994, Rocard would in no way win in 1994. Not any socialist would have won.
So, it would be Balladur 1994-2001
Jospin 2001-2006
Sarkozy 2006-...

Well,  to have some fun (oh no, after some years, it becomes a German or Swedish TL, sort of...) :

- De Gaulle 1958-1961
- Salan 1961, after a coup
- De Gaulle 1961-1962, left after having reinstated the Republic and having a new Constitution agreed
- Pompidou 1962-1969, defeated
- Mendès-France 1969-1974, eventually convinced he had to run, and he won and he reduced the presidential mandate to 5 years, but the crisis had him defeated
- Giscard d'Estaing 1974-1979, defeated
- Rocard 1979-1989, had a limit of 2 terms adopted
- Barre 1989-1994, didn't run again
- Delors 1994-1999, didn't run again
- Juppé 1999-2009
- Strauss-Kahn 2009-....

I assume you "killed" de Gaulle in your list in 1962?

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Still it's pretty diffucult to me, despite my interest in recent French history, to make such list, as I never really thought about in "what-if" category

Another try anyway:

Charles de Gaulle (1959-1968), resigned in a wake of May 1968 events
Alan Poher (1968), interim
Antoine Pinay (1968-1975), he's back and served one term because of very advanced age
Jacques Chaban-Delmas (1975-1982)
Michel Rocard (1982-1996), Rocard somewhat managed to kill politically Mitterrand and take over socialist leadership
Edouard Balladur (1996-2003)
Dominique de Villepin (2003-present)