Georges Pompidou

Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968the longest tenure in the positions historyand later President of the French Republic from 1969 until his death in 1974. He had long been a top aide to president Charles de Gaulle. As president, he was a moderate conservative who repaired Frances relationship with the United States, and maintained positive relations with the newlyindependent former colonies in Africa.

Pompidou was born in the commune of Montboudif, in the department of Cantal in central France. After his khgne at Lyce LouisleGrand, where he befriended Senegalese future poet and statesman Lopold Sdar Senghor, he graduated from the cole Normale Suprieure with a degree of Agrgation in literature.

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