Delving into the audiovisual archives on Georges Pompidou is not changing eras, it is changing worlds. And we experience, in rediscovering it, the feeling of a dizzying degradation of the government of France since its disappearance fifty years ago.
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Grandson of peasants, son of teachers, Georges Pompidou was born on July 5, 1911 in a small village in Cantal, Montboudif, on the high plateau surrounded by the volcanic massifs of the Auvergne mountains. His father, mobilized during the Great War, fought in the Army of the Orient, on the Balkan front. After the Armistice of 1918, the commune's war memorial was erected opposite the Pompidou house. Little George contemplates it every morning when he opens his bedroom window.
Very gifted in studies, the child is taken in hand by his father and goes to high school in Albi, the city where his parents were transferred.
“What I can say is that in eighth grade, at Albi high school, I had an exceptional teacher, Mr. Delga”
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