Seven hundred and thirty-one pages, 140 notes, 110 authors.
The Pompidou Dictionary,
which appears this week, is a colossal and essential sum to know the person, the actions and the thoughts of the second president of the Fifth Republic, who died just fifty years ago.
On Pompidou, there was already the remarkable biography of Éric Roussel, published in 1984 and since updated;
which Roussel wrote here the articles devoted to Édouard Balladur, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and the
Gordian Knot
, written after May 68 but which was only published after the death of the former president.
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A work not existing for any other President of the Republic, this
Pompidou Dictionary
was designed and coordinated by Christine Manigand and Olivier Sibre, the two kingpins of the Georges Pompidou Institute, chaired by his former collaborator Bernard Esambert.
Also read: Blessed, selfish and unconscious period: memories of the sweet and flourishing Pompidou years by Éric Neuhoff
From “Aérotrain” and “TGV” to “Presidential trips”, the places dear to this Auvergne are covered (Cantal, Montboudif, Cajarc, the Quai de…
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