178. French Presidents: 1958-1981 (Part 1)

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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It's the day after the French election runoff between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, so naturally here's a Rest Is History French Presidents special. Charles de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou, and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Join Tom and Dominic for the first of two episodes on the topic, as they dive headfirst into the first three post-war presidents. Join us tomorrow for the second part of this special double-bill, where we'll cover the remaining historical residents of the Élysée Palace. If you can't wait until then, sign up to The Rest Is History Club (restishistorypod.com) to hear the next episode right now and also get ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community. Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	Welcome to Dominic Sambrook.
1:02.0	What is an exciting day for all fans of French politics is it not because today is the day that the result of the French presidential election
1:09.0	2022 is announced and we should say that we are recording this the week before so we don't
1:14.1	know who will have been elected but we know that it will either be Emmanuel Macron or Marine
1:20.8	Le Pen and I'm guessing Dominic that your money would be on the former
1:26.1	I probably would be Tom but this is a terrible way to kick off because you're if if
1:30.0	Marion Le Pen has won then you're just humiliating me in the eyes of the listeners with my
1:34.7	terrible prediction.
1:36.7	But no, we did, so Tom, we did the Chancellor of Germany, didn't we, to tie in with Angela Merkel's retirement.
1:45.9	So we thought it would be fun to do the presidents of France's fifth republic, so that's
1:51.6	from 1958 onwards, to tie in with either the re-election of
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