Georges Pompidou
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Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou was President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. He had previously served from 1962 to 1968 as Prime Minister of France under President Charles de Gaulle, with
Pompidou in 1969
Pompidou (upper right) with US Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and Gemini 4 astronauts at the 1965 Paris Air Show
Pompidou with US president Richard Nixon in Reykjavík, 31 May 1973
Pompidou with West German chancellor Willy Brandt in Cologne, 3 July 1972
Charles de Gaulle
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of t
Georges Pompidou
…1974) was President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. He had previously served from 1962 to 1968 as Prime Minister of France under President Charles de Gaulle, with whom he was closely associated throughout his career. In the context of the strong growth of the last years of the Trente Glorieuses, Pompidou…
De Gaulle in uniform, 1942
Charles de Gaulle, sometime in the 1900s
De Gaulle as a cadet in Saint-Cyr, 1910
A plaque in Dinant commemorating the place where Charles de Gaulle, then an infantry lieutenant, was wounded in 1914