François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was a French politician who was the President of the French Republic from 21 May 1981 until 17 May 1995. He was born in Jarnac in the Charente department. He was a member of the Socialist Party. Before being elected president, he had held several positions in the French Cabinet. As President of France, he was also one of the Co-Princes of Andorra. He abolished death penalty in 1981. Jacques Chirac was President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra after him. Mitterrand died of prostate cancer in Paris.[1] He was laid to rest in his birthplace Jarnac.
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From 1959 to 1981, Mitterrand was also mayor of Château-Chinon (Ville), a municipality in the Nièvre department.
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François Mitterrand à dix-sept ans, en 1933.
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Mitterrand (right) with Philippe Pétain on 15 October 1942
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Mitterrand as War Veterans Minister in February 1947
François Mitterrand, president of France from 1981 to 1995, photographed in 1959
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Mitterrand on 16 October 1959
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Mitterrand in Toulouse on 17 December 1965 during the 1965 presidential election campaign
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Mitterrand in Strasbourg on 5 May 1979
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Mitterrand with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, 1984
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- ↑ "Francois Mitterrand Dies at 79; Champion of a Unified Europe". The New York Times. January 9, 1996. Retrieved August 21, 2011.