PARIS (dpa) – More than five years after his death from cancer, former French president Francois Mitterrand remains a Sphinx to his countrymen, monumental and impossible to decipher. This month, the ...

In 1981, Francois Mitterrand swept to power in France in a watershed elec tion. He united the left and fired the imagination of the country’s youth, who danced in the streets on election night in a ...

If it’s May 10 in France, it must be François Mitterrand Day. Not officially, of course (while the nation has named a library, an embankment of the Seine, and other venues after the late president, it ...

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A ceremony at Mitterrand’s childhood home in the western town of Jarnac climaxed days of official remembrance – and served as a forum for Socialists hoping to return to power in presidential elections ...

This is a story about a literary aficionado. He loved literature, philosophy and writing. He read works of Chinese writers such as Ba Jin and Cao Yu. He made no secret of his fascination about China, ...

This is a story about a literary aficionado. He loved literature, philosophy and writing. He read works of Chinese writers such as Ba Jin and Cao Yu. He made no secret of his fascination about China, ...