French president loses his temper, says he ‘knows the rules’ at Church of St. Anne, a French territory; incident similar to dust-up with Jaques Chirac in 1996

Former leader, who died on Thursday, broke a 50-year taboo in 1995 when he acknowledged his country's role in rounding up Jews for Nazi regime in World War II

Career politician, who defiantly opposed the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, was the first French leader to acknowledge his country's role in the Holocaust