"The fashionable musical styles were be-bop and jazz, led by Sydney Bechet and trumpet player Boris Vian. The new Museum of Modern Art of Paris opened in June 1947 in the old Palais de Tokyo of the 1937 Universal Exposition. Paris designers, led by Christian Dior, made Paris once again the capital of high fashion. Paris had not had an elected mayor since the French Revolution. Napoleon Bonaparte and his successors had personally chosen a prefect to run the city. The law was changed on 31 December 1975 under President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. The first mayoral election in 1977 was"
"Georges Pompidou Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (; 5 July 19112 April 1974) was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968—the longest tenure in the position's history—and later President of the French Republic from 1969 until his death in 1974. He had long been a top aide to president Charles de Gaulle. As president, he was a moderate conservative who repaired France's relationship with the United States and maintained positive relations with the newly independent former colonies in Africa. He strengthened his political party, the Union of Democrats for the Republic (""Union des Democrates pour la Ve République"" or UDR),"
"building was inaugurated by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on May 12, 2010. The building is remarkable for its roof structure, one of the largest and most complex built to date, which was inspired by a Chinese hat found in Paris by Shigeru Ban. Since its inauguration, the institution has become one of the most visited cultural venues in France outside Paris. The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a large hexagon structured round a central spire reaching , alluding to the 1977 opening date of the original Centre Pompidou of Paris. It possesses three rectangular galleries (Gallery 1, 2, and 3) weaving through"
"in 1976 by French president Georges Pompidou, two years after his death. Sadly the museum is now in a state of disrepair, several of the pieces on display have been damaged by water leaking from the ceiling. Also, in 1976 his large kinematic object ""Georges Pompidou"" was installed in the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Vasarely Museum located at his birthplace in Pécs, Hungary, was established with a large donation of works by Vasarely. In the same decade, he took a stab at industrial design with a 500-piece run of the upscale ""Suomi"" tableware by Timo Sarpaneva that Vasarely"
"Pompidou are Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and Peter Rice. The Centre Pompidou has had over 150 million visitors since 1977. Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais. In 1997 renovations had begun to drastically change the interior spaces of the Centre Pompidou. The renovations were still preserving the celebrated and original tubular design The internal refurbishment was mainly done to enable the building to deal with the pressure of increasing visitor numbers. The renovation also developed the centre's capacity to host the performing"
"bitter political rival, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac (Mayor from 1977 until 1995), the city experienced a program of monumental fountain building that exceeded that of Napoleon Bonaparte or Louis Philippe. More than one hundred fountains were built in Paris in the 1980s, mostly in the neighborhoods outside the center of Paris, where there had been few fountains before These included the Fontaine Cristaux, homage to Béla Bartók by Jean-Yves Lechevallier (1980); the Stravinsky Fountain next to the Pompidou Center, by sculptors Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely (1983); the fountain of the Pyramid of the Louvre by I.M. Pei,"
"picked up Piano and Rogers, and that he would have preferred a more classic architecture) and the choice of artwork for the Centre was based largely of her knowledge of her husband's tastes. She was particularly inspired by the work of Yves Klein. Pompidou continued to play an active role in French artistic life in subsequent decades. She also played an active role in the foundation. She published her memoirs, ""L’Élan du Coeur"", in 1997. She died in Paris. The funeral service was held in church Saint-Louis-en-l'Île in presence of president Nicolas Sarkozy, former president Jacques Chirac, Farah Pahlavi, Princess"
"Paris. Funeral guests were US President Richard Nixon, British Prime Minister Edward Heath and West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, King Hassan II of Morocco, Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba and Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. Pompidou's wife Claude Pompidou would outlive him by more than thirty years. The couple had one (adopted) son, Alain Pompidou, former president of the European Patent Office. France withdrew from the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, which took place just four days after Pompidou's death, as a mark of respect. Changes Georges Pompidou Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (; 5 July 19112 April 1974) was Prime Minister of"
"Georges Pompidou, a former Gaullist Prime Minister. Later in 1969 some centrists joined the presidential majority and the cabinet of Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a reforming Gaullist, and founded the Centre, Democracy and Progress (CDP) as majority of member split from the Democratic Centre. At the beginning of the 1970s there were therefore two centrist parties: the CDP, a component of the presidential majority, and the Democratic Centre, which remained in opposition. The Democratic Centre allied with the centrist Radical Party of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber to form the Reform Movement in 1972, Nevertheless, due to the ballot system in the legislative election (the"
"Senate and Acting President Alain Poher by a wide margin (57%–42%). Though a Gaullist, Pompidou was more pragmatic than de Gaulle, notably facilitating the accession of the United Kingdom to the European Community on 1 January 1973. He embarked on an industrialisation plan and initiated the Arianespace project, as well as the TGV project, and furthered the French civilian nuclear programme. He was sceptical about the ""New Society"" programme of his prime minister, Jacques Chaban-Delmas. In 1972, he replaced Chaban-Delmas with Pierre Messmer, a more conservative Gaullist. While the left-wing opposition organised itself and proposed a ""Common Programme"" before the"
"Georges Pompidou (1911-1974) – President and Prime Minister 45. Michel Sardou (1947-) - Singer 46. Simone Signoret (1921-1985) - Actress 47. Haroun Tazieff (1914-1998) - Vulcanologist 48. Jacques Prévert (1900-1977) - Poet 49. Éric Tabarly (1931-1998) - Sailor 50. Louis XIV (1638-1715) – King 51. David Douillet (1969-) - Judoka 52. Henri Salvador (1917-2008) - Singer and comedian 53. Jean-Jacques Goldman (1951-) - Singer, songwriter and musician 54. Jean Jaurès (1859-1914) - Politician 55. Jean Marais (1913-1998) - Actor and comedian 56. Yannick Noah (1960-) - Tennis player 57. Albert Camus (1913-1960) – Author and philosopher 58. Dalida (1933-1987) -"
"usually finished after they left office. The first was Georges Pompidou, a noted admirer and patron of modern art, who made plans for what became, after his death in 1974, the Centre Pompidou. It was designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, and expressed all of its mechanical functions on the exterior of the building, with brightly colored pipes, ducts and escalators. The principal architectural projects begun by his successor, Giscard d'Estaing, were the conversion of the Musée d'Orsay, a central railroad station transformed into a museum devoted to 19th-century French art, (1978–86), and the City of Sciences and Industry"
"full range of its collections and displayed the many major acquisitions that had been made. By 1992, the Centre de Création Industrielle was incorporated into the Centre Pompidou. The Centre Pompidou was intended to handle 8,000 visitors a day. In its first two decades it attracted more than 145 million visitors, more than five times the number first predicted. , more than 180 million people have visited the centre since its opening in 1977. However, until the 1997-2000 renovation, 20 percent of the centre's eight million annual visitors—in the main foreign tourists—rode the escalators up the outside of the building"
"Claude Pompidou Claude Jacqueline Pompidou (13 November 1912 – 3 July 2007) was the wife of President of France Georges Pompidou. She was a philanthropist and a patron of modern art, especially through the Centre Georges Pompidou. She was born Claude Jacqueline Cahour in Château-Gontier, Mayenne, one of two daughters of a doctor. Her mother died when she was three years old. She moved to Paris to study law. She met Georges Pompidou, her future husband, during the first year of her studies; he was then working as a literature teacher at a lycée. The couple married in 1935. Their"
"office was marked by constant efforts to modernise France's capital city. He spearheaded construction of a modern art museum, the Centre Beaubourg (renamed Centre Pompidou after his death), on the edge of the Marais area of Paris. Other attempts at modernisation included tearing down the open air markets at Les Halles and replacing them with the shopping mall of the same name, building the Montparnasse Tower, and constructing an expressway on the right bank of the Seine. While still in office, Pompidou died on 2 April 1974, 9 PM, from Waldenström's macroglobulinemia. The funeral service was held at Notre-Dame de"
"in January 1969. Some weeks later, his wife's name was mentioned in the Markovic affair, thus appearing to confirm her husband's status as a cuckold. Pompidou was certain that de Gaulle's inner circle was responsible for this smear. In social policy, Pompidou's tenure as prime minister witnessed the establishment of the National Employment Fund in 1963 to counter the negative effects on employment caused by industrial restructuring. After the failure of the 1969 constitutional referendum, de Gaulle resigned and Pompidou was elected president of France. In the general election of 15 June 1969, he defeated the centrist President of the"
"Defense (inaugurated July 1989); the Opera Bastille, by architect Carlos Ott, opened on July 13, 1989, the day before the bicentennial of the French Revolution; and the new French National Library, now called the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand, which Mitterrand personally dedicated on March 30, 1995, in his last official appearance before his death. He also constructed more new parks and fountains than any French head of state since Napoleon III, including the colorful Stravinsky Fountain next to the Centre Pompidou, Parc André Citroen (on the site of a former Citroen factory), and Parc de Bercy on the site of the"
"be a joint project by Tinguely and Saint Phalle. A few technical issues also needed to be resolved. Tingueley did not want the water to be chemically treated, and preferred that moss be allowed to grow. Tinguely also wanted to use very-low-power electric motors for the fountains, to avoid any danger of electrocuting people wading in the fountains. The sculptures were not attached to the bottom of the basin, but simply placed there. The finished fountain was dedicated on March 16, 1983, by Mayor Chirac, Minister of Culture Jack Lang, and Madame Pompidou, the widow of President Georges Pompidou. During"
"(1953-) - Syndicalist 88. Jean Ferrat (1930-2010) - Singer and songwriter 89. Lionel Jospin (1937-) - Prime Minister 90. Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) - Dramatist, poet, playwright and filmmaker 91. Luc Besson (1959-) - Film director 92. Tino Rossi (1907-1983) - Singer 93. Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) - Pedagogue and founder of the modern Olympic Games. 94. Jean Renoir (1894-1979) – Film director 95. Gérard Philipe (1922-1959) - Actor and comedian 96. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) – Philosopher, novelist and playwright 97. Catherine Deneuve (1943-) - Actress 98. Serge Reggiani (1922-2004) - Actor, singer and comedian 99. Gérard Depardieu (1948-) - Actor"
"saying, ""I do not like the idea of meeting kings walking around my corridors in their pyjamas."" In the 1970s, President Georges Pompidou had some of the original rooms in the palace redesigned by Pierre Paulin in the modern style, of which only the Salle à Manger Paulin survives. Socialist President François Mitterrand, who governed from 1981 to 1995, is said to have seldom used its private apartments, preferring the privacy of his own home on the more bohemian Left Bank. A discreet flat in the nearby presidential annexe Palais de l'Alma housed his mistress Anne Pingeot, mother of his"
"another main attraction; its Notre Dame de Paris and the Basilique du Sacré-Coeur receive twelve million and eight million visitors, respectively. The Eiffel Tower, by far Paris' most famous monument, averages over six million visitors per year and more than 200 million since its construction. Modern landmarks of Paris architecture include the Centre Georges Pompidou, which officially opened in 31 January 1977, and the Louvre Pyramid designed by I. M. Pei, completed in 1989. The regional daily edition of ""Le Parisien"" is available in ten departmental editions, of which one is Paris. There are four free daily newspapers distributed around"
"Alain Pompidou Alain Pompidou (born April 5, 1942) is a French scientist and politician. A former professor of histology, embryology and cytogenetics, he was the fourth president of the European Patent Office (EPO) from July 1, 2004, to June 30, 2007. He is the adopted son of Georges Pompidou, former President of France. Pompidou was born in Paris. He took doctorates in medicine, biology and science. From 1974 to 2004, he was professor of histology, embryology and cytogenetics in the medical faculty of the University of Paris. Until 2004 he was also director of the laboratory of the Cochin –"
"d'Orsay for art of the 19th century; it was opened in 1977 under President Mitterrand. He also replaced the old slaughterhouses at the Parc de la Villette with a new museum of science and technology, the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (1986). President François Mitterrand had fourteen years in power, enough time to complete more projects than any president since Napoleon III. His ""Grands Travaux"" included the Arab World Institute, a new site for the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF); a new opera house, the Opéra Bastille, opened in 1989 to celebrate the bicentennial of the French Revolution; a"
"margin of only 424 599 votes. He nominated Chirac as Prime Minister. 1974 French presidential election Presidential elections were held in :France in 1974, following the death of President Georges Pompidou. They went to a second round, and were won by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing by a margin of 1.6%. It is to date the closest presidential election in French history. In 1969, Georges Pompidou, formerly Prime Minister under the presidency of Charles de Gaulle, was elected President of France for a seven-year term. However, he died in office on 2 April 1974, and the French voters were called to elect"
"Caroline of Monaco, Maurice Druon and business woman Liliane Bettencourt. Claude Pompidou Claude Jacqueline Pompidou (13 November 1912 – 3 July 2007) was the wife of President of France Georges Pompidou. She was a philanthropist and a patron of modern art, especially through the Centre Georges Pompidou. She was born Claude Jacqueline Cahour in Château-Gontier, Mayenne, one of two daughters of a doctor. Her mother died when she was three years old. She moved to Paris to study law. She met Georges Pompidou, her future husband, during the first year of her studies; he was then working as a literature"
"or ""Grands Projets Culturels"", were officially known as the ""Grandes Operations d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme"". François Mitterrand's Socialist government of the 1980s was strongly focused on promoting culture, and it was one of the centrepieces of his regime. Mitterrand's government allocated more money into art than had ever been seen in the past or since. They were commissioned to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. Mitterrand drew his inspiration for the ""Grands Projets"" from President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's Centre Georges Pompidou of the late 1970s. The Centre Georges Pompidou was the result of an architectural design competition in 1971"
"the art of the current time, he was named curator of the Contemporary Art department by Pontus Hulten then in charge of the creation of the Centre Pompidou. In this position, he organized exhibitions of the works of Kazimir Malevich, Jean Le Gac and Pierre Molinier as well as « Paris-Berlin » and « Filliou et Pfeufer: La Fondation PoïPoï présente un hommage aux Dogons et aux Rimbauds » (Filliou and Pfeufer: the PoïPoï Foundation pays tribute to the Dogon and the Rimbaud) in 1978, « Paris-Moscou » (Paris-Moscow) in 1979 and Man Ray in 1982. That same year, he"
"1971. Pompidou watched helplessly. The United States was eager to restore positive relations with France after de Gaulle's departure from office. New US President Richard Nixon and his top adviser Henry Kissinger admired Pompidou; the politicians were in agreement on most major policy issues. The United States offered to help the French nuclear programme. Economic difficulties, however, arose following the Nixon Shock and the 1973–75 recession, particularly over the role of the American dollar as the medium for world trade. Pompidou did well in fostering helpful guidance with the newly-independent former French colonies in Africa. In 1971, he visited Mauritania,"
"last 5 years, from 8 July 1967 to April 1972. On 4 June 1972, French president Georges Pompidou officially inaugurated the new enclosure by attending the French Cup Final. On 10 November 1973, PSG played their first game at the Parc des Princes against Red Star Paris in Ligue 2. Paris SG returned to Ligue 1 in 1974, ironically the same year that Paris FC were relegated, and moved into the Parc des Princes. Thereafter, Paris FC and Racing Paris kept playing at the Parc while they were in Ligue 1 (until 1990), but never reaching the numbers of attendance"
"Freud or Mondrian/de Stijl, and to a significant increase of its own resources (+50% between 2007 and 2009). In 2009, the centre renewed the presentation of its contemporary collections with elles@pompidou, exclusively devoted to female artists, which attracted 2.5 million visitors until it was renewed in February 2011. On 29 February 2012, Seban was reappointed at the head of the organisation. Alain Seban Alain Pierre Seban (born 15 July 1964 in Toulouse, France) is a French cultural institution head and senior official. He was the president of the Pompidou Centre in Paris until february 2015. As such, he also heads"
"that the building's architectural flourishes were responsible for delays and financial crises. The Javits Center opened on 3 April 1986, to a generally positive reception. During the inauguration ceremonies, however, neither Freed nor Pei was recognized for their role in the project. When François Mitterrand was elected President of France in 1981, he laid out an ambitious plan for a variety of construction projects. One of these was the renovation of the Louvre Museum. Mitterrand appointed a civil servant named to oversee it. After visiting museums in Europe and the United States, including the US National Gallery, he asked Pei"
"adopted son, Alain Pompidou, was born in 1942. Georges Pompidou fought in the Battle of France in the Second World War, before resuming his career as a teacher. He joined the staff of Charles de Gaulle after France was liberated. He joined de Rothschild Frères as a banker in 1953, and became general manager of a bank in 1956. De Gaulle appointed Georges Pompidou as Prime Minister of France in 1962 and he served until 1968. The couple did not move to the Prime Minister's official residence at the Hôtel Matignon, staying instead in their apartment in Quai de Béthune"
"to make it a bastion of the Gaullist movement. Pompidou's presidency is generally held in high esteem by French political commentators. Pompidou was born in the commune of Montboudif, in the department of Cantal in central France. After his ""khâgne"" at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where he befriended future Senegalese poet and statesman Léopold Sédar Senghor, he attended the École Normale Supérieure, from which he graduated with a degree of ""agrégation"" in literature. He first taught literature at the lycée Henri IV in Paris until hired in 1953 by Guy de Rothschild to work at Rothschild. In 1956, he was appointed the"