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 ...

It's not unusual for a film to center on an ailing older man imparting wisdom and experience to a young man before it's too late, but in "The Last Mitterrand" the oldster in question is French ...

Two decades after he was first elected, the late French president François Mitterrand's approval rating appears all but undented by the multitude of scandals that have surfaced since his death five ...

Mitterrand, who died on 8 January 1996, can be remembered as the man who created the modern French left, bringing it into power after 23 years in the opposition. He did this by folding the Communist ...

France is getting ready to welcome a new cultural minister, with Frederic Mitterrand confirming rumors Tuesday on public TV network France 2 that he will replace cultural minister Christine Albanel.

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 ...

Score it as the first serious collateral damage stemming from the ongoing detention of film director Roman Polanski. Just two weeks after his impassioned protest of Polanski’s Sept. 26 arrest, French ...

An image from a blustery January 1996 afternoon, when Mitterrand’s two families stood around the former president’s flag-draped coffin, is seared in the French public’s memory. Standing slightly ...

Ten years after his death, France's former socialist president Francois Mitterrand continues to inspire intense devotion — especially in comparison to current President Jacques Chirac. The 10-year ...

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.