Georges Pompidou
President of France from 1969 to 1974 · France · Politicians · Lived 1911 to 1974 · aged 62
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Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou rose through Charles de Gaulle's orbit, serving as Prime Minister from 1962 to 1968 before claiming the presidency himself in 1969. He pushed France deeper into modernity during the final surge of the Trente Glorieuses - backing the Concorde, launching the TGV high-speed rail project, creating the minimum wage and the Ministry of the Environment, pouring state money into steel, aerospace, nuclear power, and telecoms. His foreign policy softened de Gaulle's edges: he warmed to Nixon's America, cultivated Brezhnev's Moscow, and reversed course to let the United Kingdom into the EEC. An admirer of contemporary art, he set in motion what became the Centre Pompidou, though Waldenström's disease - a rare blood cancer - killed him in April 1974, three years before the museum opened. The building went on to branch into Metz, Málaga, Brussels, and Shanghai, carrying his name farther than any policy brief ever could.
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