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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.
26 November 1916. François Mitterrand was born in Jarnac. September 1939. He was drafting while completing his studies in Paris. Mentioned in dispatches three times, he was wounded and taken prisoner. December 1941. He managed to escape while being transferred to a deportation camp. 1943. Upon his return to France, he joined the Resistance ...
Jan 9, 1996 · Francois Maurice Marie Mitterrand was born on Oct. 26, 1916, in the town of Jarnac, near Cognac, the brandy-distilling center, one of eight children of Joseph Mitterrand and Yvonne Lorrain.
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 Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (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 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 ...
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was a French politician who was the President of the French Republic from 21 May 1981 until 17 May 1995. He was born in Jarnac in the Charente department. He was a member of the Socialist Party. Before being elected president, he had held several positions in the ...
