Fran%C3%A7ois Mitterrand


Franois Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand October 1916 January 1996 was a French politician who was President of France from 1981 to 1995. He was the longestserving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the first figure from the left elected President under the Fifth Republic.

Mitterrand was born in Jarnac, Charente, and baptized Franois Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand, the son of Joseph Mitterrand and Yvonne Lorrain. His family was devoutly Roman Catholic and conservative. His father worked as an engineer for the Compagnie Paris Orlans railway. He had three brothers, Robert, Jacques and Philippe, and four sisters, Antoinette, MarieJosphe, Colette and Genevive.

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