Talk:Georges Pompidou

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Nothing about the Centre Pompidou? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.222.118.99 (talk) 20:51, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I was just about to mention that. Surely something should be mentioned? Morhange 01:36, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Is Pompidou a French surname? I think too little is written in his biography. Something about his parents would be nice. 85.74.177.233 22:37, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Early life?
Pompidou was born in 1911 and there is nothing about his life until 1953 except that he was a teacher and had befriended a Sengalese poet/statesman. Since he entered adulthood about 1931, what about the period 1931-1953? The periods of the Popular Front, the war, the Vichy Regime, Liberation and the immediate post-war period are not mentioned. This seems a strange biography. --TGC55 (talk) 02:25, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

This is due to the fact that Pompidou's life had nothing spectacular until his meeting with De Gaulle in 1944. He was neither a Resistant nor a collaborator during Vichy Regime, such as the huge majority of French people actually. He had the normal life of a teacher with his wife when a friend of him introduced him into De Gaulle's cabinet in 1944. This made him probably the most "natural" French President ever. However someone should indeed write something about the 1944-1962 period... (Sorry about my bad English, I'm French ;) ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.140.34.16 (talk) 23:15, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

A Reader's Digest article I recall reading in the early 1970s, titled 'The Man Who Said Yes to Europe' (in reference mainly to his acceptance of UK into the then EEC) mentioned that he spent the winter of 1939-40 (the so-called Phoney War period of WWII) as lieutenant in a French Army "Alpine infantry regiment".Cloptonson (talk) 21:44, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Error...?
Why is Poher still listed as the acting President (succeeding Pompidou)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4Jmaster (talk • contribs) 18:13, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It doesn't list him as current president, just the acting president who succeeded him. MartinezMD (talk) 02:50, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Inönü attending Pompidou's funeral
Under #Death in office it says that İsmet İnönü attended Pompidou's funeral as the prime minister of Turkey. However there are two errors. One is that Inönü's last spell as prime minister had ended in 1965, the other is that he had been dead since 5 months back. This error seems to have been present ever since the section was expanded with the dignitaries a year ago. Lochglasgowstrathyre (talk) 15:59, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

And Petar Stambolic, unless he came to the funeral as an ex-prime minister, he was not prime minister in 1973. Same for Hans-Peter Tschudi but he was a president not a prime minister. Lochglasgowstrathyre (talk) 16:16, 24 September 2021 (UTC)