If a leader’s strength is his ability to create and control his own legend, then Francois Mitterrand has been one of France’s strongest officials in this century. The son of an upper middle-class ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish politician surrounded by rumors of being the secret son of Francois Mitterrand has said in an interview that the late French president was his father. Hravn Forsne, a ...

Nobody else knew they existed. For decades, Anne Pingeot kept the 1,218 love letters she received from the late president François Mitterrand in old shoe boxes. Now she has decided to publish them to ...

It's not unusual for a film to center on an ailing older man imparting wisdom and experience to a young man before it's too late, but in "The Last Mitterrand" the oldster in question is French ...

An image from a blustery January 1996 afternoon, when Mitterrand’s two families stood around the former president’s flag-draped coffin, is seared in the French public’s memory. Standing slightly ...

Frédéric Mitterrand, France's Culture Minister and nephew of the late President François Mitterrand, has come under attackLoic Venance / AFP / Getty Images Score it as the first serious collateral ...

If you can imagine Richard Nixon without his pathological unease-that is, a Nixon who was all dispassionate sang-froid and opportunistic mastery, the way he so desperately wanted to be seen-then you ...

The official White House transcript that was published following Biden's speech showed Mitterrand's name crossed out and replaced with the correct name: French President Emmanuel Macron. In early ...

The former First Lady of France Danielle Mitterrand has died at the age of 87, according to media reports. Mitterrand, who was married to former President Francois Mitterrand for more than 50 years, ...

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 ...

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