1911 5 th July Born in Montboudif (Cantal)

1918 Began at the Lycée in Albi. His father, Léon Pompidou,
a teacher, was a councillor in Albi.

1927 First prize in Greek translation in general competitive exam.

1928 Bachelor degree.

1928-1929 First year preparatory class in Toulouse in humanities
for entrance to Ecole normale supérieure , Toulouse.

1929-1930 Second year preparatory class, at Lycée
Louis-le-Grand in Paris, in humanities for entrance to Ecole
normale supérieure .

1930-1931 Third year preparatory class, at Lycée
Louis-le-Grand in Paris, in humanities for entrance to
Ecole normale supérieure .

1931 Accepted (8th place) into Ecole normale supérieure ,
rue d'Ulm, Paris. Member of student socialists with Léopold
Sédar Senghor.

1931-1934 Stays in Austria and Germany.
Enrolment at Ecole libre des Sciences politiques .

1934 First in Agrégation exam in French.
Graduated from the Ecole libre des Sciences politiques.

1934-1935 National service at Saint-Maixent and in
Clermont-Ferrand.

1935 French teacher at Lycée Saint-Charles in Marseilles.
Begins a thesis (unfinished) on Barbey d'Aurevilly.

1938 French teacher at Lycée Henri IV , Paris.

1939 September Called up for active duty, Grasse. Sent to Lorraine with the 141 st alpine infantry regiment. Receives the Croix de guerre .

1940-1944 June Returns to Lycée Henri IV , Paris. Teaches first
year preparatory class in humanities for entrance to Ecole
normale supérieur and preparatory classes for E.N.F.O.M .

1944 Presentation of Britannicus by Racine, Classiques
Hachette.

1944-1946 September Chargé de mission in General de Gaulle's private office at G.P.R.F

1946-1949 Deputy to Henri Ingrand, general commissaire for
tourism.

1946 Maître des requêtes at the Conseil d'Etat (Council of
State)),
(leave of absence 1954-1957, honorary as from 1957).
16 June General de Gaulle's Bayeux speech.

1947 Launching of the party Rassemblement du Peuple
Français (R.P.F.). Secretary to the Comité national
d'études set up by General de Gaulle and Gaston Palewski.
General secretary of the Anne de Gaulle Foundation.
Diploma from the Centre des Hautes Etudes
Administratives .
Presentation of Les Origines de la France contemporaine
de Taine, Classiques illustrés Vaubourdolle, Hachette.

1948 Teaches at the Institut d'Etudes politiques , directs
the conferences on method.

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April 1948-1953 Head of private office to General de Gaulle.

1949 La France sera la France : ce que veut Charles de
Gaulle, texts and speeches from 1940 to 1950, collected and
organized by Georges Pompidou.

1953 Joins the Bank Rothschild. Presentation of Pages choisies,
de Taine, Classiques illustrés Vaubourdolle, Hachette.

1954-1962 Director of numerous companies within the
Rothschild group (except between 1 June 1958 and 7
January 1959), notably :
- Société anonyme de gérance et d'armement , 1954-1962,
- Compagnie du chemin de fer du Nord, 1955-1962,
- Société Rateau, 1957-1962,
- Compagnie franco-africaine de recherches pétrolières
francaises.

1955 Presentation of Pages choisies (romans) d'André
Malraux, Classiques illustrés Vaubourdolle, Hachette.

1956-1962 General manager at Messieurs de Rothschild
frères .

__________________________________________________________ 1958 1 June-Décembre Head of staff of private office to General de Gaulle.

2 June Vote granting full powers to General de Gaulle, last
president of the Council of the IV Republic.

28 September Constitution adopted by referendum.

23 October Creation of l'Union pour la Nouvelle République
(U.N.R.).

23-30 Nov. General election ( U.N.R . : 20,81% of electorate)…

21 December General de Gaulle elected president of the
Republic and of the Community.

1959-1962 President of Société d'investissement du Nord .
Vice-President of Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à
Orléans .

1959 Michel Debré becomes Prime minister.
Member of the Conseil constitutionnel (Constitutional Council)
until April 1962.

1961 Anthologie de la poesie française, Hachette.

20 February Sent to Lucerne in secret by General de
Gaulle to meet the representatives of the provisional Algerian
government.

1962 8 April Evian agreements approved in a referendum.


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14 April 1962-10 July 1968 Georges Pompidou, Prime minister to General de Gaulle.

26 April George Pompidou's first speech to the National
Assembly.

15 May General de Gaulle's press conference rejecting an
integrated Europe. Resignation of five ministers of the Mouvement
Républicain Populaire (M.R.P.).

1 July Independance of Algeria.

22 August Assasination attempt, Petit-Clamart, against General
de Gaulle.

12 September De Gaulle announces a referendum on the election
of the president of the Republic by direct universal suffrage.

5 October Vote of no-confidence topples the government. General
de Gaulle refuses the resignation of Georges Pompidou.

10 October Dissolution of the National Assembly.

28 October Election of the president of the Republic by direct
universal suffrage is approved in a referendum.

18-25 Nov. General election ( U.N.R-U.D.T . : 27,97% of
electorate).

27 November Georges Pompidou becomes Prime minister
once again.

7 December Georges Pompidou's second government is
formed.

29 December Company agreement at Renault : Four week's
paid holiday.

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1963 14 January De Gaulle blocks Great Britain's attempt to join
the Common Market.

22 January Franco-German Treaty of Cooperation is signed.

1 Mars-5 April Miners strike.

15-17 July George Pompidou's visit to Turkey.

12 September Presentation of the stabilisation plan.

__________________________________________________________ 1964 27 January Recognition of Communist China.

6 February Publication of the Toutée report on discussion
procedures.

6-11 April George Pompidou's visit to Japan.

24 April Debate on institutions in the National Assembly :
opposing Georges Pompidou, François Mitterrand and Paul
Coste-Floret.

19 June George Pompidou's visit to the Cantal region.

25-30 July George Pompidou visits the nuclear test centre
in the Pacific.

__________________________________________________________ 1965 5-13 February George Pompidou's visit to Pakistan and
India.

30 April Georges Pompidou receives Andrei Gromyko.

14 March Elected councillor in Cajarc (Lot).

1 July France begins “empty seat” policy in Brussels.

12 July Vallot amendment on participation.

9 September François Mitterrand becomes sole candidate
of the left.

5 December General de Gaulle faces run-off in the first round
of the presidential elections.

19 December General de Gaulle elected president of the
Republic.

__________________________________________________________ 1966 8 January Georges Pompidou's third government.

7 March France leaves the integrated command of NATO.

6-8 July Georges Pomidou's visit to London.

__________________________________________________________ 1967 10 January Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's press conference :
“Yes, but…”

26 January Meeting between Georges Pompidou and Harold
Wilson.

22 February Debate between Georges Pompidou and François
Mitterrand in Nevers.

5-12 March General election ( U.D.-V : 24,86% of electorate).

7 April Georges Pompidou's fourth government.

26 April The Council of ministers asks for authorisation to
legislate by ordinances. Resignation of Edgard Pisani.

11 May General de Gaulle's second veto on Britain's joining
the Common Market.

5-10 June Six-day war.

3-8 July Georges Pompidou's visit to the USSR.

13 July Creation of the A.N.P.E. (Job centres)

26 July De Gaulle in Montréal : “Vive le Québec libre !”.

17 August Ordinance on employee profit-sharing scheme.

22 August Ordinances and decrees to reform the social
security system.

26 August Georges Pompidou receives J.Lynch, Prime
minister of Eire.

13-16 Sept. Georges Pompidou's visit to Austria.

24-26 Nov. U.N.R.-U.D.T. conference in Lille.

19 December Neuwirth law authorising contraception is
passed.

__________________________________________________________ 1968 26-28 March Georges Pompidou receives J.Fock, Hungarian
Head of State.

2-11 May Prime minister's vist to Iran and Afghanistan.

3 May Beginning of student disturbances phase during the
events of May.

10-11 May Night of the barricades.

11 May Return from Afghanistan, announcement of measures
to calm the situation.

13 May Students' and unions' march. Beginning of the social
phase of the crisis.

14-18 May General de Gaulle's visit to Romania.

25-27 May Grenelle negotiations and “agreements”.

29 May Disappearance of General de Gaulle.

30 May General de Gaulle's statement and announcement of
dissolution. Gaullist demonstration on the Champs-Elysées.

31 May Reshuffle of Georges Pompidou's government.

23-30 June General election ( U.D.R : 29,30% of electorate).
Georges Pompidou reelected deputy for Cantal region.

10 July Georges Pompidou resigns.

__________________________________________________________ 1969
Georges Pompidou drafts Les noeud gordien (published
posthumously).

17 January Interview with a group of journalists in Rome.

13 February Geneva declaration.

27 April Failure of the referendum on the reform of the Senate
and the regions.

28 April General de Gaulle resigns. Reading of a text by
Georges Pompidou on “Poésie and politique” during a
poetry evening at the Comédie française .

29 April Candidacy of Georges Pompidou for the office of
President of the Republic.

30 April The Républicains-indépendants rally to the support
of Georges Pompidou.

12 May Candidacy of Alain Poher for the office of President
of the Republic.

22 May The centrist Jacques Duhamel rallies to the support
of Georges Pompidou.

15 June 1969- 2 April 1974 Georges Pompidou President of the Republic (57,58% of votes cast, 33,17% of electorate).

20 June 1969- Jacques Chaban-Delmas Prime minister.

5 July 1972

4 July Meeting between Willy Brandt and Georges Pompidou
in Paris. Creation of Centre démocratie et progrès (C.D.P.).

10 July First press conference of the President of the Republic
from the Elysée.

20 August Devaluation of the Franc by 12,5%.

8-9 September Franco-German meeting between Georges
Pompidou and Kurt Georg Kiesinger in Bonn.

16 September Statement of the Prime minister's general policy
on “the new society”.

22 September October President's press conference from the Elysée. Louis Vallon, L'Anti de Gaulle, critique of Georges
Pompidou. He is excluded from the policy-making committee
of the U.D.R.

Novembre Liberal reform of O.R.T.F.

1-2 December Summit meeting of the Six at The Hague,
Georges Pompidou evokes the triptyque “ Completion,
deepening, enlarging”.

15 December Georges Pompidou decides to set up a centre
of contemporary art in Paris.

__________________________________________________________ 1970 7 January Law instituting the S.M.I.C. (Minimaum salary).

14 January Announcement of the Ostpolitik by Chancellor
Brandt .

21 January Law requiring the distribution of part of the capital
to the salaried employees at Renault .

30 January Franco-German meeting at the Elysée.

24 February- Georges Pompidou's visit to the United States.
28 February,

3 March hostile demonstration of the Jewish community in
Chicago.

Mars Creation of the Institute for industrial development.

20 April C.N.P.F . – Unions agreements on monthly salaries.

15-16 May Meetings between Pierre Werner, Prime minister
of Luxembourg and Georges Pompidou.

19-20 May Meeting between Aldo Moro and Georges
Pompidou.

4 June Law “anticasseurs”.

2 July President's press conference from the Elysée.

3-4 July Georges Pompidou's visit to Bonn.

6-13 October Georges Pompidou's visit to the USSR.

9 November Death of General de Gaulle.

20-21 Nov. National conference of U.D.R in Strasbourg.

__________________________________________________________ 1971 7 January Government reshuffle.

21 January President's press conference from the Elysée.

25 January Meetings between Willy Brandt and Georges
Pompidou in Paris.

3-12 February First visit to Africa (Mauritania,Senegal, Ivory
Coast, Cameroon, Gabon).

21 March Jacques Chaban-Delmas' second government.

20-21 May Meetings between Edward Heath and Georges
Pompidou in Paris on Britain's joining the Common Market.

24-26 May Visit to Belguim. (Brussels, Liège).

16 June Congress in Epinay. François Mitterrand becomes
First secretary of the P.S. (Socialist party).

5-6 July Visit to Bonn.

12 July Manifesto of five U.D.R presidents of National
Assembly commissions criticizing the government.

16 July For the first time, the Conseil constitutionnel
(Constitutional council) declares a law not to be in compliance
with the constitution. (Article 3 of the law concerning
associations).

19 July “Garantie foncière” scandal.

15 August The United States suspends the convertability
of the dollar into gold.

23 September President's press conference from the Elysée.

25-30 October Georges Pompidou receives Leonid Brezhnev.

3-4 December Meetings between Willy Brandt and Georges
Pompidou in Paris.

13-14 Dec. Meetings between Richard Nixon and Georges
Pompidou in the Azores.

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19 January Le Canard enchaîné (satirical weekly) publishes
the Prime
minister's tax-return.

24-28 January Second visit to Africa (Niger, Chad).

10-11 Feb. Meetings between Willy Brandt and Georges
Pompidou in Paris.

12 February Jacques Chaban-Delmas' third government.
President's press conference from the Elysée. Georges
Pompidou announces a referendum in France on enlargening
the Common Market.

18-19 March Meetings between Edward Heath and Georges
Pompidou at Chequers.

23 April Referendum on enlargening the Common Market.

3-4 May Georges Pompidou's visit to Luxembourg.

17 May Jacques Chaban-Delmas obtains the authorisation to
engage the responsibility of the government “if he judges it useful”.

23 May The National Assembly gives the government its
confidence in a vote 368 votes to 96.

2 June Meeting between Gaston Eyskens and Georges
Pompidou.

26 June Common government programme of the left-wing
parties.

3-4 July Meetings between Willy Brandt and Georges
Pompidou in Bonn.

5 July Jacques Chaban-Delmas resigns. Law concerning
regional public corporations.

__________________________________________________________ 5 July 1972-2 April 1974 Pierre Messmer, Prime minister.

18 June Georges Pompidou inaugurates the memorial to Charles
de Gaulle at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglisée.

9 September Meetings between Georges Pompidou, Giovani
Leone and Giulio Andreotti in Italy.

21 September President's press conference from the Elysée.

8 October Valéry Giscard d'Estaing : “France wants to be
governed from the centre”.

19-21 Oct. Summit meeting of the Nine in Paris.

__________________________________________________________ 1973
7 January Provins speech. Pierre Messmer presents the
programme of the majority.

9 January President's press conference from the Elysée.

10 January Georges Pompidou's visit to Minsk (USSR).

11-12 January Meeting between Georges Pompidou and
Leonid Brezhnev in the USSR.

15-19 January Fourth visit to Africa (Djibouti, Ethiopia).

22-23 January Meetings between Willy Brandt and Georges
Pompidou in Paris.

4-11 March General election ( U.D.F –U.R.P : 19,10%
of electorate).

3 April President's message announcing the reform of the
five-year term .

5-6 April Constitution of Pierre Messmer's second
government.

31 May- Meetings between Richard Nixon and Georges
Pompidou in

1 June Reykjavik.

12 June Lip watchmakers files for bankruptcy. The factory
is occupied.

21-22 June Georges Pompidou's visit to Bonn.

26-27 June The president receives Leonid Brezhnev in
Rambouillet.

28 June Dissolution of the the Ligue communiste and
Ordre nouveau .

11-17 Sept. Georges Pompidou's visit to China.

27 September President's press conference from the Elysée.

6 October Beginning of the Kippur war.

16 October Arab countries decrease oil exports by 25% and
increase the price of the barrel by 17%.

16-19 Oct. Vote on the project for constitutional reform in the
National Assembly and the Senate.

24 October Ajourning of the reform on the five-year term.

16-17 Nov. Georges Pompidou's visit to Great Britain.

17-18 Nov. U.D.R. conference in Nantes.

14 December Summit of the Nine in Copenhagen. The National
Assembly sends the Bill on abortion to committee.

1 March Pierre Messmer's third government.

March Acceleration of the programme for producing
nuclear energy.

11-13 March Georges Pompidou's visit to the USSR.
Meeting with Leonid Brezhnev in Pitsounda.

2 April Death of the president of the Republic.