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Research in progress

The story of the Georges Pompidou years is still recent history and the gradual access to its sources means it is a very fruitful field for research. Written archives are now being opened up more and more to researchers, oral accounts are enhancing these and the cross-referencing of sources all cotribute to an interesting confrontation of what is known.

The Georges Pompidou Association seeks to encourage scientific research in the following way

First of all, the Association sees to it that access to sources is enhanced and made easy. As far as written accounts are concerned, the Association is responsible for a part of the Georges Pompidou collection which is held at the Archives nationales . It also encourages former close associates to deposit their personal archives concerning this period. The Association's research leaders have also managed to retranscribe the diaries and address books of President Georges Pompidou thanks to his former chief of staff Anne-Marie Dupuy and his secretary Madeleine Négrel. And by creating oral archives the Association seeks to complete the written archives and produce an original source.

The Association also strives to circulate what is known about this period by regularly organising symposia on varied themes concerning the Pompidou years. These activities are published. The symposia enable academics to give details of the progress made in their work, to take stock of the state of research and to launch new lines of thought. In addition, they are an occasion for dialogue between researchers and contempories.

Finally, the Association promotes scientific studies through publications and scientific assistance to researchers and students alike. For example, in 1996 the Association published, Georges Pompidou, homme d'Etat, 1962-1974, Guide d'orientation bibliographique