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 ...

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 ...

France's top economic journal Rejekeo recently posted a short video on social media. Although it did not specify names, the ...

Former socialist president François Mitterrand, under whom the death penalty was eventually abolished in France, ordered the execution of 45 Algerian prisoners when he was justice minister during the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Paris: The love child of the former French president, Francois Mitterrand, has disclosed how her schoolfriends were sworn to keep the ...

A biography of François Mitterrand, one of France’s best loved presidents, has caused a stir before it even hits the shelves, as it reveals for the first time in French his mistress’s account of their ...