1. Charles De Gaulle’s Grand Design, 1967

2. De Gaulle in Montreal, 1967, Vive le Quebec francais

3. De Gaulle The president as monarch

4. The Concorde: French-led European technology

5. Pompidou, 1969-1974

6. Very Big Presidential Projects: Pompidou’s Beaubourg Museum

7. Valery Giscard d’Estaing, an aristocratic president, 1974-1981

8. Minitel: France catches up and surpasses in telephone communications

9. Presidential modernization, also touches Women’s and consumer issues under Giscard. He appoints cutting-edge journalist, Francoise Giroud, former editor of Elle and founder with Jean-Jacques Servan-Schrieber, of l’Express as the first undersecretary of state for women’s issues.

10. Moving in different directions: Mitterand, the socialist president, with SPD chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, Margaret Thatcher, and Ronald Reagan, 1981

11. Francois Mitterand, An imperious socialist president, 1981-1995

12. The New National Library, or TGB (tres grande bibliotheque), a word play on another great undertaking of the 1980s, the TGV or trains a grande vitesse (super –fast trains

13. Jacques Chirac, 1994-2008

14. Prime Minister Andreotti with President Nixon, circa 1971

15. 1946 Giulio Andreotti (b. 1919) with mentor, Alcide De Gaspari

16. Giulio Andreotti, 87, Senator-for-Life, 2007

17. Enrico Berlinguer, Secretary of Italian Communist Party (PCI); spokesman for Euro-Communism, speaking at the annual party congress, 1976

18. Aldo Moro, former prime minister, secretary of the Christian Democratic Party, force behind the idea of the historic compromise, kidnapped and assassinated by the Red Brigades in 1978

19. In May, 1978 after holding him 55 days, the Red Brigades murdered Aldo Moro to stop the historic compromise

20. Funeral of Berlinguer after his premature death in 984. The European spokesman for “national” or “Euro- communism,” a form of social democracy seeking independence from Moscow and favoring the adaptation of Marxism to local requirements.

21. Funeral of Berlinguer, 1984, the final salute

22. Bettino Craxi: strong man head of Italian Socialist Party

23. Bettino Craxi: longest serving prime minister, 1983-1987 on the eve of his ouster for corruption

24. Craxi with a political protege, building and media magnate, and future prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, 1980s