Two decades after he was first elected, the late French president François Mitterrand's approval rating appears all but undented by the multitude of scandals that have surfaced since his death five ...

“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.

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 ...

Of all modern European leaders, François Mitterrand was the one most clearly born into the wrong century. He would have made a superb Renaissance cardinal, presiding over mass with great pomp before ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As far as lousy years go, 1979 ranks right down there with the terror-mangled annus horribulus of 2001 and the Nixonian nadir of 1973. The calendar of woe began with the January-February Islamic ...

France is getting ready to welcome a new cultural minister, with Frederic Mitterrand confirming rumors Tuesday on public TV network France 2 that he will replace cultural minister Christine Albanel.

Ten years after his death, France's former socialist president Francois Mitterrand continues to inspire intense devotion — especially in comparison to current President Jacques Chirac. The 10-year ...

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 ...