[1] Garaud was a private adviser to President Pompidou and Jacques Chirac during his first time as Prime Minister.
In the 1970s, she was considered to be the most influential woman in France.
She ran in the 1981 French presidential election and sat at the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004, elected on the list of Charles Pasqua and Philippe de Villiers.
[2] Garaud voted "no" in the French Maastricht Treaty referendum and in the 2005 French European Constitution referendum.
Garaud died on 22 May 2024 in Saint-Pompain at the age of 90.