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François-Maurice-Marie Mitterrand was born in Jarnac, France, on Oct. 26, 1916. In 1939, when war broke out, he enlisted in the infantry but was wounded and captured in June 1940. Beginning in 1947, a year after he was elected to the National Assembly, he held cabinet posts in 11 ill-fated governments of the Fourth Republic.
Feb 5, 2024 · Biden tells crowd he recently met with Mitterand, former French president who died in 1996. François Mitterrand served as France’s president between 1981 and 1995.
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Aug 19, 2015 · The Many Lives of François Mitterrand. Before Alexis Tsipras, Europe battered François Mitterrand's reformist ambitions into a sweeping neoliberal program. In the story of Greece’s subjugation by European capital, there is a seemingly endless cast of villains. At the top of that list are Angela Merkel and the almost cartoonishly loathsome ...
François Mitterand (Profile ) In the end, his skin was pulled tight over his bones in a waxen mask. And to some it seemed that his long battle with prostate cancer had distilled the essential inscrutability of a man whom opponents had once dubbed the Sphinx. This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on January 22, 1996.
Feb 6, 2024 · FOLLOW. 30. President Joe Biden has been mocked after appearing to confuse the current French president, Emmanuel Macron, with the country's former leader Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996. As ...
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Dec 1, 2012 · Mazarine Pingeot is the daughter of François Mitterrand and Anne Pingeot, his longtime mistress, and for much of her youth and nearly his entire 14-year presidency she was a state secret.
François Mitterrand. (President of France from 1981 to 1995) Francois Mitterrand was a French statesman and politician who went on to become the President of France for the longest term (1981-1995). Completing education in the field of law and politics, he started his career as an officer in the French Army during the World War II.
