There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

He embarked on an industrialisation plan and initiated the Arianespace project as well as the TGV project and furthered the French civilian nuclear programme. His nomination was controversial because he was not a member of the National Assembly. Their relationship until then very good would be strained from then on.

Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (French: [ʒɔʁʒ pɔ̃pidu]; 5 July 1911 – 2 April 1974) was a French politician.