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Charles de Gaulle

Pompidou persuaded De Gaulle to dissolve parliament

Thursday May 30, 1968
Paris, France

On 30 May, Pompidou persuaded him to dissolve parliament (in which the government had all but lost its majority in the March 1967 elections) and hold new elections instead.


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