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Oct 3, 2021 · Mitterrand was quoting a letter by the first World War leader Georges Clémenceau to his last love, Marguerite Baldensperger, who was 42 years his junior. Mitterrand surpassed Clémenceau.
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May 10, 2021 · François Mitterrand was elected the Fifth Republic’s first Socialist president on May 10, 1981. Mitterrand soon U-turned on his socialist economic agenda – but he remains lionised by large ...
Jan 6, 2021 · An ailing Mitterrand spent his last days in Paris bedridden in his apartment near the Eiffel Tower. His entourage knew it was the end. The 79-year-old had stopped eating and ended his treatment...
Feb 5, 2024 · President Biden told a crowd of supporters in Las Vegas on Sunday that he recently met with Mitterand, the French president who has been dead for nearly 30 years.
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- Bradford Betz
But a quarter of a century later the enigmatic leader they called "The Sphinx" still fascinates France — in particular, the bombshell revelations about his illegitimate daughter and the illness he kept hidden as a "state secret" for 11 years. Double life.
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand[ a ] (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France. As a former Socialist Party First Secretary, he was the first left-wing politician to assume the presidency under the Fifth ...
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Jan 9, 1996 · Francois Mitterrand, who revived France's Socialist Party into a modern political force and whose election as President ended decades of Gaullist rule, died this morning in his official...
