Biden recounted a story he has told many times during his presidency, about a meeting he had with French President Emmanuel Macron during a G7 meeting in England, some months after Biden had taken ...

2024-02-05T15:47:13-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/61b/001/1707166051_001.jpgJoe was talking to François Mitterrand after he was elected... problem is ...

Was François Mitterrand, who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, anti-Semitic? October 26 marks Mitterrand’s centenary but already earlier this year on a Gallic TV chat show, Prime ...

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 ...

As he is ushered to his official car, the old man turns and flashes a Delphic smile. “I’m the last of the grand presidents,” he says matter-of-factly. “After me, there will be no others in France.” ...

If American readers know one thing about Francois Mitterrand, it is that both his wife and his mistress attended his public funeral in 1996. In life, however, Mitterand was an aloof figure: “The ...

Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity. By Philip Short. The Bodley Head; 688 pages; £30. To be published in America in April as “A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand” by Henry ...