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(0)Jean-Pierre Rioux
Author
Series
Cambridge history of modern France volume 7
Publisher
Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
"This is the most authoritative account available in English of the presidency of Georges Pompidou. Pompidou consolidated the constitutional changes made by de Gaulle, to the extent that he is now regarded as the Fifth Republic's second founding father, and continued de Gaulle's haughty attitudes to foreign policy. He also launched a programme of modernization and industrialization: under Pompidou France saw both the climax and the end of the postwar...