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Georges Pampidou ( Prime Minister of France) - Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (French: 00a0[ 0292 0254 0281 0292 p 0254 0303pidu]; 5 July 1911 00a0 2013 2 April 1974) was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968 2014the longest tenure in the position's history 2014and 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 R 00e9publique or UDR), to make it a bastion of the Gaullist movement. Pompidou's presidency is generally held in high esteem by French political commentators.

Francois Leotard (French politician/Singer/Actor) - Fran 00e7ois Gerard Marie L 00e9otard (born 26 March 1942, in Cannes) is a retired French politician. Singer and actor Philippe L 00e9otard (1940 20132001) was his brother. Member of the Republican Party, the liberal-conservative component of the Union for French Democracy (UDF), he appeared in the foreground of the political scene in the 1980s. He led a new generation of right-wing politicians, the renovationmen , who opposed the old right-wing leaders Jacques Chirac and Val 00e9ry Giscard d'Estaing. In 1981, he was selected to be one of the first Young Leaders of the French-American Foundation. His political career started with being elected as the Mayor of Fr 00e9jus in 1977. He served two terms as the deputy of Var. Culture Minister, from 1986 to 1988, he sold the main public TV channel TF1. He returned in the cabinet as Defense Minister, from 1993 to 1995. Supporting the candidacy of Edouard Balladur in the 1995 presidential election, he was dismissed after Chirac's election. Elected president of the UDF in 1996, he could not prevent the split of this confederation two years later with Alain Madelin's secession. This and the party's poor showing in the 1998 regional elections prompted his resignation. After a mission in Macedonia in 2001 as representative of the European Union, he retired from politics. In 2003, he created together with other prominent European personalities the Medbridge Strategy Center, whose goal is to promote dialogue and mutual understanding between Europe and the Middle-East. He has since written several books. , Fran‡ois Leotard, Claude Jacqueline Pompidou, Stefano Casiraghi, Caroline