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Michel Barnier, Pierre Jean-Chalençon, Edouard Balladur… The personalities gathered in to salute the memory of Alain Pompidou alongside his widow

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On December 12, 2024, learned of the disappearance of Alain Pompidou, the only son of the former President of the Republic George Pompidou and his wife Claude. For his funeral organized in this Thursday, December 18, 2024, a multitude of public figures were there to pay him a last tribute…

Michel Barnier, Pierre Jean-Chalençon, Edouard Balladur… The personalities gathered in Paris to salute the memory of Alain Pompidou alongside his widow

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Alain Pompidou, only son of the former President of the Republic Georges Pompidou and his wife Claude, died at the age of 82, the Claude Pompidou Foundation, now chaired by Claude Chirac, revealed on December 12, 2024. “Alain Pompidou has worked over all these years in line with the commitments of his mother Claude Pompidou towards the most vulnerable.“, we learned. Married twice in addition to being the happy father of three children, the deceased had been adopted by the Pompidou couple at the age of three months in 1942.

This former professor of medicine had agreed to retrace his incredible journey in a poignant work called It was Georges, my father (Robert Laffont), published last year. Passionate about politics like his illustrious father, Alain Pompidou had served two terms as a European deputy, elected on RPR lists between 1989 and 1999. At the same time, as reported by the teams of the FigaroAlain Pompidou also distinguished himself as scientific advisor to several Prime Ministers such as Édouard Balladur or even Alain Juppé. His funeral took place at the Saint-Louis-en-l’Île church in Paris this Thursday, December 18, 2024, many public figures attended the religious ceremony to say goodbye…

Alain Pompidou: former ministers present to pay him a final tribute

It was natural for Édouard Balladur to be present to offer his condolences in person to his new wife Nicole Pompidou, who despite her immense grief and her difficulties in walking displayed very dignified alongside the funeral van. The former Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry of France Hervé Gaymard, now president of the Savoie Departmental Council, also made the trip to pay a final tribute to Alain Pompidou.

Pierre-Jean Chalençon, who has several times used his notoriety for the Pompidou Foundation which works daily to help all people made vulnerable by disability, illness and old age, also responded. For several minutes, the famous collector exchanged the lost soul with certain members of the Pompidou clan. Thomas Pompidou, one of the children of the ex-politician who came to mourn, was also immortalized with a scarred face. A leading figure of the Republican right, Michel Barnier, the former Prime Minister freshly overthrown by a motion of censure, also attended the funeral of Alain Pompidou. A very sad day as the end of year holidays approach…

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