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), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing began the Musée d'Orsay (1986); President François Mitterrand, in power for 14 years, built the Opéra Bastille (1985-1989), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1996), the Arche de la Défense (1985-1989), and the Louvre Pyramid with its underground courtyard (1983-1989); Jacques Chirac (2006), the Musée du quai Branly.
What did Jacques Chirac have built?
Musée du quai Branly
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), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing began the Musée d'Orsay (1986); President François Mitterrand, in power for 14 years, built the Opéra Bastille (1985-1989), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1996), the Arche de la Défense (1985-1989), and the Louvre Pyramid with its underground courtyard (1983-1989); Jacques Chirac (2006), the Musée du quai Branly.
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 (nineteen seventy-seven), Valery Giscard d'Estaing began the Musee d'Orsay (nineteen eighty-six); President Francois Mitterrand, in power for fourteen years, built the Opera Bastille (nineteen eighty-five-nineteen eighty-nine), the Bibliotheque nationale de France (nineteen ninety-six), the Arche de la Defense (nineteen eighty-five-nineteen eighty-nine), and the Louvre Pyramid with its underground courtyard (nineteen eighty-three-nineteen eighty-nine); Jacques Chirac (two thousand six), the Musee du quai Branly.
What did Jacques Chirac have built?