Title: Charles De Gaulle
1Charles De Gaulles Grand Design, 1967
2De Gaulle in Montreal, 1967, Vive le Quebec
francais
3De Gaulle The president as monarch
4The Concorde French-led European technology
5Pompidou, 1969-1974
6 Very Big Presidential Projects Pompidous
Beaubourg Museum
7Valery Giscard dEstaing, an aristocratic
president, 1974-1981
8Minitel France catches up and surpasses in
telephone communications
9Presidential modernization, also touches Womens
and consumer issues under Giscard. He appoints
cutting-edge journalist, Francoise Giroud,
former editor of Elle and founder
with Jean-Jacques Servan-Schrieber, of lExpress
as the first undersecretary of state for womens
issues.
10Moving in different directions Mitterand, the
socialist president, with SPD chancellor,
Helmut Schmidt, Margaret Thatcher, and Ronald
Reagan, 1981
11Francois Mitterand, An imperious socialist
president, 1981-1995
12The New National Library, or TGB (tres grande
bibliotheque), a word play on another great
undertaking of the 1980s, the TGV or
trains a grande vitesse (super fast
trains
13Jacques Chirac, 1994-2008
14Prime Minister Andreotti with President Nixon,
circa 1971
151946 Giulio Andreotti (b. 1919) with mentor,
Alcide De Gaspari
16Giulio Andreotti, 87, Senator-for-Life , 2007
17Enrico Berlinguer, Secretary of Italian Communist
Party (PCI) spokesman for Euro-Communism,
speaking at the annual party congress, 1976
18Aldo Moro, former prime minister, secretary of
the Christian Democratic Party, force behind the
idea of the historic compromise, kidnapped and
assassinated by the Red Brigades in 1978
19In May, 1978 after holding him 55 days, the Red
Brigades murdered Aldo Moro to stop the historic
compromise
20Funeral of Berlinguer after his premature death
in 984. The European spokesman for national
or Euro- communism, a form of social democracy
seeking independence from Moscow and favoring the
adaptation of Marxism to local requirements.
21Funeral of Berlinguer, 1984, the final salute
22Bettino Craxi strong man head of Italian
Socialist Party
23Bettino Craxi longest serving prime minister,
1983-1987 on the eve of his ouster for
corruption
24Craxi with a political protege, building and
media magnate, and future prime minister Silvio
Berlusconi, 1980s