Ms Lagarde is still one of the most popular politicians on the right in France.
Ms Lagarde, a perfect English speaker, has never expressed a desire to run for president.
But Ms Lagarde's lawyer, Yves Repiquet, said the decision would not affect her work.
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But we can say for sure that the chancellor has a good friend in Christine Lagarde.
Countries that still had work to do included the euro area and Japan, said Ms Lagarde.
"The global economy is not out of the danger zone, " IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said.
Lagarde was furious, but the message from above was, she says, ''You conform, or you resign.
While other leaders chastised German callousness, Lagarde listened to their objections, then left the room.
Lagarde's performance was the chief driver of her appointment to the top job at the IMF.
Ms Lagarde replaced its disgraced former chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn less than two years ago.
''My mother was a principled person who would not suffer fools gladly, '' Lagarde recalls.
However, Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday that the situation had reached a "turning point".
The head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, said she was not in a "renegotiating mood".
It was taken from HSBC bank and handed to the then French Finance Minister, Christine Lagarde.
Buyers largely were in crime-prone businesses like minimarts, says Bryan Lagarde, who runs a New Orleans surveillance supply company.
Lagarde praised the contributions of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In 2009, I interviewed Christine Lagarde at the Plaza Athenee in New York City.
Further delaying of treating the symptoms obviously will not sit well Lagarde and the IMF.
Christine Lagarde, the finance minister, is well liked and internationally respected, but lacks political clout.
On February 4th Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister, published her hastily produced report into the affair.
For all her cultural fluency, there was one language Lagarde did not speak: that of French politics.
Born Christine Lallouette in Paris, Lagarde lost her father, a professor of English, when she was 17.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde officially announced her candidacy for the top seat at the IMF.
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The claim is made by Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, in an interview with CNN.
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In an era of uber connectivity and multitasking Lagarde was completely prepared and present for this conversation.
Ms Lagarde decided to use arbitration to settle a long-running legal battle between the state and Mr Tapie.
In a BBC interview for HardTalk, Madame Lagarde has now insisted "we don't do dust-up, we do dialogue".
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it continues to have "confidence" in its managing director Christine Lagarde.
Ms Lagarde has yet to be placed under formal investigation in the case and has denied any wrongdoing.
Christine Lagarde is surely the first synchronised swimmer to take one of the top jobs in international finance.
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