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State Dinners - 5/17/76 - France (2)” of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R The original documents are located in Box 33, folder “State Dinners - 5/17/76 - France (2)” of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Copyright Notice The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald Ford donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid copyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Digitized from Box 33 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library WITHDRAWAL SHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES) FORM OF CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE DATE RESTRICTION DOCUMENT Itinerary Detailed Scenario for the state visit of the President of France and ND B Mrs. Giscard D'Estaing, May 17-22, 1976. (52 two-sided pages) File Location: Sheile Weidenfeld Files, Box 33, Folder: 5/17/1976 - France (2) SD 217/2017 RESTRICTION CODES (A) Closed by applicable Executive order governing access to national security information. (B) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document. (C) Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in the donor's deed of gift. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION NA FORM 1429 (1-98) WITHDRAWAL SHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES) FORM OF CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE DATE RESTRICTION DOCUMENT Report Government report, 18 pages. A File Location: Sheile Weidenfeld Files, Box 33, Folder: 5/17/1976 - France (2) SD 2/7/201 7 RESTRICTION CODES (A) Closed by applicable Executive order governing access to national security information. (B) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document. (C) Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in the donor's deed of gift. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION NA FORM 1429 (1-98) • ba~round noiE---- France department of state * ju~ 1975 OFFICIAL NAME: French Republic GEOGRAPHY Andorra and Spain. It is separated covers most of northern and western from the United Kingdom by the France from the Belgian border in the France, the largest West European English Channel and the Strait of northeast to Bayonne in the southwest nation, is bordered on the north and Dover. with upland areas in Normandy, east by Belgium, Luxembourg, the Two-thirds of the country is flat Brittany, and the east. This large plain Federal Republic of Germany, Switz­ plains or gently rolling hills and the is bounded on the south by the steeply erland, and Italy and on the south by rest is mountainous. A broad plain rising ridges of the Pyrenees; on the southeast by the mountainous plateau of the Massif Central; and on the east PROFILE FLAG: Three vertical stripes of blue, by the rugged Alps, the low ridges of white, and red. the Jura, and the rounded summits of Geography the densely forested Vosges. The prin­ Economy cipal rivers are the Rhone and the AREA: 212,650 sq. mi. (about four· GNP: $248 billion (1973). ANNUAL Durance in the south, the Loire and fifths the size of Texas). CAPITAL: Paris GROWTH RATE: 3.5% (1974). PER the Garonne in the west, and the Seine (pop. 8.S million). OTHER CITIES: Mar· CAPITA INCOME: $4,800 (1973). PER in the north. The Rhine River forms seille, Lyon, Lille. CAPITA GROWTH RATE: 12.5%. part of France's eastern border with People AGRICULTURE: Land 60%. Labor the F.R.G. 12%. Products-cereals, feed grains, live­ France has generally cool winters POPULATION: 52.7 million (1974 est.). stock and dairy products, wine, fruits, vege­ ANNUAL GROWTH RATE: 0.08% (1974 and mild summers in the west and the tables. north. Southern France has a Mediter­ est.). DENSITY: 249 per sq. mi. ErHNIC INDUSTRY: Labor 40%. Products­ GROUPS: Principally Celtic and Latin with chemicals, automobiles, processed foods, ranean climate of hot summers and large Teutonic minority. RELIGION: iron and steel, aircraft, textiles, clothing. mild winters. Roman Catholic (90%). LANGUAGE: NATURAL RESOURCES: Coal, iron French. LITERACY: 97% (est.). LIFE EX­ ore, bauxite, fish, forests. PECTANCY: Female 75.S yrs.; male 68 yrs. TRADE: Exports-$34.6 billion (1973): PEOPLE textiles and clothing, iron and steel prod­ Government Since prehistoric times France has ucts, machinery and transportation equip­ TYPE: Republic. DATE OF CONSTITU­ ment, agricultural products, wine. Partners­ been a crossroads of trade, travel, and TION: September 28, 1958. F.R.G., Italy, U.S. ($2.3 billion, 1974). invasion. Thus the French people com­ BRANCHES: Executive- President lmports- $36 billion (1973): machinery and prise large elements of the three basic (Chief of State). Prime Minister (Head of equipment, crude petroleum, iron and steel European stocks- Nordic, Alpine, and Government). Legislative- Bicameral Par­ products, textile fibers, coal and coke, food­ Mediterranean. But because of exten­ liament (490-member National Assembly, stuffs. Partners- F.R.G., Italy, U.S. ($2.9 bil­ sive mixture these basic types may be 281-member Senate). Judicial- Court of lion, 1974). referred to only in the broadest sense. Cassation, Council of State (administrative OFFICIAL EXCHANGE RATE: French France's birth rate was among the court). francs (FF) 3.90=US$1 (June 1975). highest in Europe from 1945 until the POLITICAL PARTIES: Union of Demo­ MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL crats for the Republic (UDR- Gaullists), ORGANIZATIONS: U.N., North Atlantic late l 960's. A drop in the birth rate Independent Republicans (IR), Socialist Treaty Organization (NATO), Southeast began at that time, and by 1974 the Party, French Communist Party, various Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), Organi­ rate was 15 births per 1,000 people, Center parties. SUFFRAGE: Universal over zation for Economic Cooperation and De­ the lowest since 1945. 18. POLmCAL SUBDMSIONS: 95 De­ v el opm en t, Western European Union France has traditionally had a high partments. (WEU), European Communities (EC). level of immigration, and some 3 mil- 3 occupied in 1940. After 5 years of Jn April 1969 Gen. de Gaulle's READING LIST strife and occupation, France emerged government conducted a national from World War JI exhausted and referendum on the creation of 21 These titles are provided as a general regions with limited political powers. CHANNEL faced with a series of new problems. ISLANDS "{ indication of the material currently be­ After the fall of the provisional The President threatened to resign if (U.K.)_., ing published on this country. The the proposed reforms were not ap­ .. \ Department of State does not endorse government initially led by Gen. ---.., ~) the specific views in unofficial publica­ Charles de Gaulle, the Fourth Re­ proved by the voters. On April 27 the __, tions as representing the position of the public was established under a new government's proposals were defeated U.S. Government. constitution with a parliamentary (48 percent in favor, 52 percent op­ form of government controlled by a posed), and Gen. de Gaulle resigned. Ardagh, John. The New French series of coalitions. The heterogeneous A number of candidates presented Revolution; a Social and Eco­ ·48 nature of the coalitions and the dif­ themselves in the ensuing election for nomic Survey of France, ficulty of agreeing on measures for a new President. Georges Pompidou, 1945-1968. New York: Harper dealing with the Algerian problem who was supported not only by the and Row, 1968. caused successive cabinet crises and Gaullists but also by their Independent Cartier-Bresson, Henri. Cartier­ changes of government. The govern­ Republican allies and some Centrists, Bresson 's France. Francois ment structure finally collapsed on was elected with a 58 percent majority Nourissier, trans. New York: May 13, 1958, over the Algerian ques­ of the votes. Installed as President on The Viking Press, 1971 . tion. A threatened coup d'etat led de Carmoy, Guy. The Foreign June 29, 1969, Pompidou appointed Parliament to call on Gen. de Gaulle to Policies of France, 1944-1968. Jacques Chaban-Delmas as Prime head the government and prevent Chicago: University of Chicago Minister of a Cabinet which included incipient civil war. He became Prime Centrists and Independent Republi­ Press, 1970. Minister in June and was elected cans as well as Gaullists. de Gaulle, Charles. Memoirs of President in December. Michel Debre Jn July 1972 President Pompidou Hope. (trans.). New York: was then appointed Prime Minister and replaced Chaban-Delmas with Pierre Simon and Schuster, 1972. served in that post until April 1962, Messmer. The Socialists led by Hartley, Anthony. Gaullism; the when he was succeeded by Georges Francois Mitterrand, the Communist RAY OF BISCAY Rise and Fall of a Political Move· Pompidou. Party headed by Georges Marchais, ment. New York: Outerbridge On December 5, 1965, for the first and a faction of the Radical Party FRANCE and Dienstfrey (for sale by Dut­ time in this century, the French reached agreement on a joint program 44 ton), 1971. - International boundary people went to the polls to elect a on which to base their campaign for Knapton, Ernest. France; an lnter­ ® National capital President by direct ballot. Gen. de the March 1973 legislative elections. - Railroad pre tative History. New York: Gaulle defeated Francois Mitterrand The United Left more than doubled its Scribners, 1971 . International airport with 55 percent of the vote. Jn the Assembly representation, and Mit­ Ouston, Philip. France in the terrand emerged from the campaign as Gl!LFOF UON Twentieth Century. New York: parliamentary elections of March 5 0 25 50 arbonne and 13, 1967, Gaullist candidates re­ the Left's chief spokesman.
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