François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was a French politician and statesman who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that ...

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 ...

Mitterand died on 8 January 1996, yet he remains a presence in French politics. The Socialist Party figurehead did not merely lead France from 1981 to 1995; he rearranged the country’s political map, ...

It's probably a little too pat to say that all successful political careers are marked by contradiction and compromise, though you're not likely to hear many objections to that characterization.

If American readers know one thing about Francois Mitterrand, it is that both his wife and his mistress attended his public funeral in 1996. In life, however, Mitterand was an aloof figure: “The ...

Philip Short, A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2014), 640 pp., $40.00. SOME OF the greatest historical coups de théâtre have been ...

Was François Mitterrand, who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, anti-Semitic? October 26 marks Mitterrand’s centenary but already earlier this year on a Gallic TV chat show, Prime ...