Paris
Most of the postwar's presidents of the Fifth Republic wanted to leave their own monuments in Paris; President Georges Pompidou started the Centre Georges Pompidou (1977), Valery Giscard d'Estaing began the Musee d'Orsay (1986); President Francois Mitterrand, in power for 14 years, built the Opera Bastille (1985-1989), the Bibliotheque nationale de France (1996), the Arche de la Defense (1985-1989), and the Louvre Pyramid with its underground courtyard (1983-1989); Jacques Chirac (2006), the Musee du quai Branly.
In what year was the Centre Georges Pompidou erected?
1977
Most of the postwar's presidents of the Fifth Republic wanted to leave their own monuments in Paris; President Georges Pompidou started the Centre Georges Pompidou (1977), Valery Giscard d'Estaing began the Musee d'Orsay (1986); President Francois Mitterrand, in power for 14 years, built the Opera Bastille (1985-1989), the Bibliotheque nationale de France (1996), the Arche de la Defense (1985-1989), and the Louvre Pyramid with its underground courtyard (1983-1989); Jacques Chirac (2006), the Musee du quai Branly.
the Centre Georges Pompidou