François Mitterrand's secret 30-year relationship with his mistress, the art historian Anne Pingeot, is to be laid bare with the surprise publication of a book of his love letters in which he pens his ...

Following the break-in at the Louvre museum in Paris, new investigations have been launched into further suspects, the French news agency AFP reported on Saturday. An investigation is under way into a ...

Two people arrested in the investigation into the Louvre robbery have been formally charged, according to the Paris Public ...

The Louvre is to receive additional anti-burglary protection before the end of the year, French Culture Minister Rachida Dati ...

Joe Biden appeared to confuse the current French president Emmanuel Macron with his predecessor Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996, during a Monday speech. The president, speaking in Las Vegas to ...

SPIEGEL Interview with Danielle Mitterrand Francois Mitterrand's Widow Says, "I Will Vote No" Danielle Mitterrand, 80, is the widow of former French President Francois Mitterrand. She spoke with ...

The first left-wing president of the Fifth Republic died on 8 January 1996, at the age of 79. Along with a handful of Socialist Party colleagues, Macron paid his respects at 11am at the foot of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...