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Encyclopedia > Claude Pompidou
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Claude Pompidou (13 November 1912 – 3 July 2007) was the wife of President of France Georges Pompidou, a philanthropist and as a patron of modern art especially through the Centre Georges Pompidou.[1] Image File history File links Current_event_marker. ... // The following is a list of notable deaths in 2007. ... is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... The President of France, known officially as the President of the Republic (Président de la République in French), is Frances elected Head of State. ... Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (5 July 1911 – 2 April 1974) was President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. ... A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, or reputation to a charitable cause. ... Dejeuner sur lHerbe by Pablo Picasso At the Moulin Rouge: Two Women Waltzing by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892 The Scream by Edvard Munch, 1893 I and the Village by Marc Chagall, 1911 Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, 1917 Campbells Soup Cans 1962 Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two... Centre Georges Poopy Doo Doo (constructed 1971–1977 and known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the IVe arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles and the Marais. ...

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Life before politics

She was born Claude Cahour in 1912 in Chateau-Gontier, Mayenne, the daughter of a doctor. While studying law, she met Pompidou and the couple married in 1935. The couple had a son Alain Pompidou.[2] Mayenne is a département in northwest France named after the Mayenne River. ... Lady Justice or Justitia is a personification of the moral force that underlies the legal system (particularly in Western art). ... Prof. ...


Georges Pompidou worked as a literature teacher at a lycée before joining de Rothschild Frères as a banker becoming general manager of a bank in 1956. In France, secondary education is divided into two schools: the collège (IPA: ) (somewhat comparable to U.S. junior high school) for the first four years directly following primary school; the lycée (IPA: ) (comparable to a U.S. high school) for the next three years. ... The Rothschild banking family of France was founded in 1812 in Paris by Jacob Mayer Rothschild (1792-1868). ...


Political life

Charles De Gaulle appointed Pompidou as Prime Minister of France in 1962 and he served until 1968. He won public acclaim for his handling of the May 1968 strike but it caused friction with De Gaulle leading to his resignation as Prime Minister once the crisis had passed. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Prime Minister of France (Premier ministre de la France) is the functional head of the Cabinet of France. ... A May 1968 poster: Be young and shut up, with stereotypical silhouette of General de Gaulle. ...


Pompidou ran for the Presidency in 1969 and was successful. Claude Pompidou set up a foundation in 1970 to help disabled children, the elderly and hospitalised.[3] Jacques Chirac served as the Treasurer of the Foundation for over three decades.[4] Jacques René Chirac (born 29 November 1932) is a French politician. ...


Pompidou did not enjoy political life, once calling the Elysée Palace a "palace of tears".[5] Her husband died in office in 1974. The entrance to the Élysée Palace. ...


Pompidou Centre

Pompidou played a key role in establishing the Centre Georges Pompidou. The choice of artwork for the Centre was based largely of her knowledge of her husbands tastes.[6] Pompidou continued to play an active role in French artistic life in subsequent decades.[7] She also played an active role in the foundation.


Pompidou died on 3 July 2007.[8] is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...


References

  1. ^ AP via The Houston Chronicle, June 3, 2007
  2. ^ AP via The Houston Chronicle, June 3, 2007
  3. ^ LVMH Humanitarian causes
  4. ^ Embassy of France biography
  5. ^ AP via The Houston Chronicle, June 3, 2007
  6. ^ Georges Pompidou on art
  7. ^ International Herald Tribune "Exhibition Captures a Rare Artistry : Man Ray, the Designer Behind the Camera" May 5 1998
  8. ^ New York Times, "Claude Pompidou, Art Patron, Dies at 94" 3 July 2007

  Results from FactBites:
 
Georges Pompidou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (901 words)
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (July 5, 1911 – April 2, 1974) was President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974.
As Prime Minister during the student demonstrations of May 1968, Pompidou was widely regarded as having been responsible for ensuring that the disorder had a peaceful conclusion.
Following de Gaulle's resignation in 1969, Pompidou was elected to be his successor as President of France, defeating Acting President Alain Poher.
Poetry Bay - Online Poetry Magazine (915 words)
Claude Pelieu and Mary Beach met in 1962 and, until Claude's unfortunate passing in December of 2002, they shared an exemplary rich and creative life.
Long hailed in Claude's native France as the natural inheritors of the Surrealist legacy (a direct line has been drawn by French critics from Picasso and Braque to Schwitters and Duchamp to Warhol and Pelieu), their works are highly prized and respected.
Claude and Mary wed in 1975, and finally settled in upstate New York - first in Cooperstown, then in the nearby small town of Norwich.
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