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François Mitterrand — The Fifth Republic’s first left-wing president, 1916–1996
An escaped prisoner, a Vichy official decorated with the francisque then a résistant — both are true, and he never disowned the ambiguity. A Fourth Republic minister, the Fifth’s constant opponent (“the permanent coup d’État”), the PS’s refounder at Épinay, he was elected 10 May 1981 and governed fourteen years: abolition, decentralization, Europe, two cohabitations — and an illness long concealed. Dead in January 1996, he rests at Jarnac. (Editorial synthesis)
François Mitterrand was born on 26 October 1916. (source: Archives nationales and Élysée)
François Mitterrand was born in Jarnac. (source: Archives nationales and Élysée)
François Mitterrand died on 8 January 1996. (source: Archives nationales and Élysée)
François Mitterrand died in Paris. (source: Archives nationales and Élysée)
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