The French politician and statesman François Mitterrand (1916-1996) served in different governments under the Fourth Republic (1946-1958) and became a major opponent of Charles de Gaulle under the Fifth Republic beginning in 1958. In 1981 he was...

François Mitterrand became president of France in 1981, and was re-elected to a second seven-year term in 1988. He was the first socialist to hold the presidency in the Fifth Republic. Born in 1916, Mitterrand was captured during the early stages...

François Mitterrand was a French statesman and, in 1981–95, socialist President of France. Born on 26 October 1916 in Jarnac, Mitterrand was a soldier and prisoner of war during the Second World War. He escaped from captivity to Vichy...

François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (help·info) IPA: [fʀɑ̃ˈswa mɔˈʀis mitɛˈʀɑ̃] (October 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party (PS)....

MITTERRAND THE FRENCH are a highly individualistic people, and, as Walter Bagehot and Harold Laski have pointed out, individualism mixes badly with democracy. They are undoubtedly an ideological people as well, but Francois Mitterrand might be an exception. In predicting how he...

The Pancho cartoon in Le Monde said it all. There were Boris Yeltsin and Francois Mitterrand engaged in an intense tete-a-tete. "What would you do if faced with a very hostile Parliament?" the beleaguered Russian is asking his French counterpart. Mitterrand, behind a long,...