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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 ...
- François Marie Adrien Maurice Mitterrand, 26 October 1916, Jarnac, France
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Apr 9, 2024 · François Mitterrand (born Oct. 26, 1916, Jarnac, France—died Jan. 8, 1996, Paris) was a politician who served two terms (1981–95) as president of France, leading his country to closer political and economic integration with western Europe. The first socialist to hold the office, Mitterrand abandoned leftist economic policies early in his ...
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May 21, 2018 · Mitterrand, François Maurice Marie (1916–96) French statesman, president (1981–96). He was active in the French Resistance, and served in the government of the Fourth Republic. In 1965, he united the parties of the left, and narrowly lost the presidential election in 1974. In 1981 elections, Mitterrand defeated the incumbent Giscard d'Estaing.
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François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand est né le 26 octobre 1916 dans la ville de Jarnac ( Charente ), au sein d'une famille bourgeoise catholique et conservatrice. Son grand-père paternel était chef de gare à Jarnac, fils d'un éclusier du canal de Berry, à Audes, dans le département de l' Allier ; c'était un catholique pratiquant.
Learn about the life and career of François Mitterrand, the only leftist president of the Fifth Republic. He was a Resistance fighter, a former prisoner of war, a reformer, a builder and a European.
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 ...
François Mitterrand was born in Jarnac, Charente, in a Catholic and conservative family. His father, Gilbert Félix Joseph, was agent of a railroad company, then vinegar maker, and later President of the federation of vinegar maker trade-unions, whose maternal grandmother was a noblewoman, descendant of Kings Fernando III of Castile and Jean ...
