As the presidential battle heats up, the representatives of the three Charles de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing foundations meet for lunch at Lipp's on Tuesday. The idea of reviving the memory of the three former presidents of the Fifth Republic in the famous Parisian brasserie on Boulevard Saint-Germain came from Louis Giscard d'Estaing. As president of the VGE Foundation, he launched an invitation to his two counterparts Hervé Gaymard, president of the Charles de Gaulle Foundation and Alain Pompidou, son of the former head of state. He wants to surprise them by offering them a historical photograph taken in the same place half a century earlier. "
I wanted to wink at the evocation and the spirit of the famous dinner in September 1965 which brought together my father and that of Alain Pompidou at Lipp's, at the request of General de Gaulle who wanted his Prime Minister and his Minister of Finance give a signal of their good understanding
, ”says Louis…
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