Jean Lacouture and Patrick Rotman interview the witnesses of François Mitterrand's life. Their testimonies, which both complement and contradict each other, write the story of a life: the youth, the ...

As he is ushered to his official car, the old man turns and flashes a Delphic smile. “I’m the last of the grand presidents,” he says matter-of-factly. “After me, there will be no others in France.” ...

2024-02-05T15:47:13-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/61b/001/1707166051_001.jpgJoe was talking to François Mitterrand after he was elected... problem is ...

The official presidential portrait of François Mitterrand, right, alongside campaign posters of Anne Hidalgo and François Hollande, in the office of the Parti Socialiste federation of Tulle, central ...

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, ...