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 sections of ...

If it’s May 10 in France, it must be François Mitterrand Day. Not officially, of course (while the nation has named a library, an embankment of the Seine, and other venues after the late president, it ...

On 10 May, 1981, Socialist president François Mitterrand swept the French left to power after 23 years in opposition. It was an historic triumph for a party that is struggling to remain relevant four ...

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Danielle Mitterrand, the widow of France’s former Socialist President François Mitterrand, died early Tuesday at the age of 87. A former resistance heroine, she used her position as first lady to ...

“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 century after Mitterrand’s death.

A ceremony at Mitterrand’s childhood home in the western town of Jarnac climaxed days of official remembrance – and served as a forum for Socialists hoping to return to power in presidential elections ...

This is a story about a literary aficionado. He loved literature, philosophy and writing. He read works of Chinese writers such as Ba Jin and Cao Yu. He made no secret of his fascination about China, ...

Mitterrand, who died on 8 January 1996, can be remembered as the man who created the modern French left, bringing it into power after 23 years in the opposition. He did this by folding the Communist ...

Biden recounted a story he has told many times during his presidency, about a meeting he had with French President Emmanuel Macron during a G7 meeting in England, some months after Biden had taken ...

A British diplomat suspected Francois Mitterrand had serious medical problems 11 years before they became public. Sir Reginald Hibbert, UK ambassador to France, said the then newly elected French ...