the fifth republic: the socialist era

The Fifth Republic:The Socialist Era

Georges PompidouPresident, 1969-1974

Pompidou presidency:space & speed

Arianespace SA TGV

Pompidou presidency:modernizing Paris

Centre Pompidou Les Halles

Pompidou presidency:modernizing Paris

Montparnasse Towerexpressway on the right bank of the Seine

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Valery Giscard d’EstaingPresident, 1974-1981

Francois MitterrandPresident, 1981-1995

Decentralized power

• workers new rights to bargain collectively• raised the minimum wage• increased family subsidies and old-age

pensions• death penalty abolished• new prisons built to alleviate overcrowding• nationalized major banks & large industries

National Front:Jean-Marie Le Pen & Marine

cohabitation

Francois Mitterand Jacques Chirac

Mitterrand building legacy

Louvre pyramidI.M. Pei (1989)

Mitterrand building legacy

Grand Arch of La Defense Bastille Opera

Jacques ChiracPresident, 1995-2007