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Feb 18, 2006 · Scott Simon talks with Michael Paterniti about former French President Francois Mitterrand's last meal, which consisted of a rare -- and illegal -- dish of Ortolan, a bird about the size of a thumb.
Jun 23, 2021 · Every so often I think about the last supper of ex French president François Mitterrand, which had a horrifying beauty. He was dying of age and a long illness. There were oysters and so on, a feast, then a dish called ortolan. It’s a small songbird. To prepare it, the ortolan is drowned in a glass of Armagnac.
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Dec 31, 2020 · The “single hedonistic mouthful” that is a roast ortolan was the centrepiece of François Mitterrand’s last meal ( Foie gras, truffles, birds drowned in brandy: a menu fit for Queen Victoria ...
Jun 27, 2008 · What brought me to France in the first place was a story I'd heard about François Mitterrand, the former French president, who two years ago had gorged himself on one last orgiastic feast before ...
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Sep 16, 2011 · Mitterand's Last Supper. A reconstruction of Francois Mitterand's lavish supper days before his death. The meal included the serving of roast ortolan bunting, a small wild songbird which is a ...
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Oct 3, 2021 · Sun Oct 3 2021 - 18:25. “I will help you to live. You will help me to die,” François Mitterrand used to tell his last, secret mistress, whose existence has just been revealed, a quarter of a ...
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 ...
