biography
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Pompidou, Georges (Jean Raymond)
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pronunciation:
[põpeedoo]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1911–74)
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| biography:
| French statesman, prime minister (1962, 1962–6, 1966–7, 1967–8), and president (1969–74), born in Montboudif, C France. He trained as an administrator, joined de Gaulle's staff in 1944, and held various government posts from 1946. He helped to draft the constitution for the Fifth Republic (1958), negotiated a settlement in Algeria (1961), and played a key role in resolving the political crisis of 1968. Dismissed by his increasingly jealous patron, Charles de Gaulle, he was elected president following the latter's resignation. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is named after him; designed by Richard Rogers (1933– ) and Renzo Piano (1937– ), it was opened in 1977. |
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