Charles De Gaulle

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Charles De Gaulles Grand Design, 1967
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De Gaulle in Montreal, 1967, Vive le Quebec
francais
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De Gaulle The president as monarch
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The Concorde French-led European technology
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Pompidou, 1969-1974
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Very Big Presidential Projects Pompidous
Beaubourg Museum
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Valery Giscard dEstaing, an aristocratic
president, 1974-1981
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Minitel France catches up and surpasses in
telephone communications
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Presidential modernization, also touches Womens
and consumer issues under Giscard. He appoints
cutting-edge journalist, Francoise Giroud,
former editor of Elle and founder
with Jean-Jacques Servan-Schrieber, of lExpress
as the first undersecretary of state for womens
issues.
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Moving in different directions Mitterand, the
socialist president, with SPD chancellor,
Helmut Schmidt, Margaret Thatcher, and Ronald
Reagan, 1981
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Francois Mitterand, An imperious socialist
president, 1981-1995
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The New National Library, or TGB (tres grande
bibliotheque), a word play on another great
undertaking of the 1980s, the TGV or
trains a grande vitesse (super fast
trains
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Jacques Chirac, 1994-2008
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Prime Minister Andreotti with President Nixon,
circa 1971
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1946 Giulio Andreotti (b. 1919) with mentor,
Alcide De Gaspari
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Giulio Andreotti, 87, Senator-for-Life , 2007
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Enrico Berlinguer, Secretary of Italian Communist
Party (PCI) spokesman for Euro-Communism,
speaking at the annual party congress, 1976
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Aldo Moro, former prime minister, secretary of
the Christian Democratic Party, force behind the
idea of the historic compromise, kidnapped and
assassinated by the Red Brigades in 1978
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In May, 1978 after holding him 55 days, the Red
Brigades murdered Aldo Moro to stop the historic
compromise
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Funeral of Berlinguer after his premature death
in 984. The European spokesman for national
or Euro- communism, a form of social democracy
seeking independence from Moscow and favoring the
adaptation of Marxism to local requirements.
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Funeral of Berlinguer, 1984, the final salute
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Bettino Craxi strong man head of Italian
Socialist Party
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Bettino Craxi longest serving prime minister,
1983-1987 on the eve of his ouster for
corruption
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Craxi with a political protege, building and
media magnate, and future prime minister Silvio
Berlusconi, 1980s