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    exemplified by Presidents Georges Pompidou (Centre Georges Pompidou); Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (Musée d'Orsay) and François Mitterrand (Grand Louvre), the project...
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    state secretary of economy (1968–1971), he worked closely with Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who headed the ministry of economy and finance. After some months...
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    diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing from 1978 to 1981. From 1983 until 2011, he was a member of the...
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    railway station into a museum was announced in 1978 by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. The architects for the conversion were the architects' firm ACT...
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    Pompidou was officially opened on January 31, 1977, by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. The designers of Pompidou are Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and...
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    on 8 December 1977 in a ceremony that was attended by President Valery Giscard D'Estaing. A second phase of construction commenced at the end of the 1970s...
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    concentration of museums such as the Musée d'Orsay, Musée Rodin and the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac. Situated on the Rive Gauche—the "Left" bank of the...
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    1974. The daring decorations were removed by the next President, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. In 1970, Mme Pompidou set up the Claude Pompidou Foundation to...
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    France. Originally, the project was conceived in 1973 by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. The museum was constructed between 1981 and 1987 under the presidency...
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    1975: President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing adopted the charge of the arms in his presidential standard. 6 June 1980: President d'Estaing assumed on him being...
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