Francois Mitterand

Referring to Francois Mitterand, France's last Socialist president who retired in 1995, Mr Sarkozy said: Mitterrand used to travel for pleasure.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012

Referring to Francois Mitterand, France's last Socialist president who retired in 1995, Mr Sarkozy said: Mitterrand used to travel for pleasure.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012

Taxis on Boulevard Francois Mitterand drive down an exit ramp past a bombed-out pick-up truck with a twisted machine gun mounted over its cab.

UN Moves Gbagbo; Ouattara Orders Army to Secure Abidjan 2011

Taxis on Boulevard Francois Mitterand drive down an exit ramp past a bombed-out pick-up truck with a twisted machine gun mounted over its cab.

UN Moves Gbagbo; Ouattara Orders Army to Secure Abidjan 2011

Carion's script bounces back and forth between the encounters between Sergei and Pierre in Russia and the maneuvering that goes on between the French CIA, the American CIA, newly elected French president Francois Mitterand (who Reagan decries as a socialist -- gee, that sounds familiar) and Reagan himself (played ably, without doing an impersonation, by Fred Ward).

Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Farewell 2010

Then there is the assassination attempt that Francois Mitterand stage-managed against himself in 1957 -- perhaps in a sort of homage to the "miracle" that saved Charles de Gaulle from great bursts of gunfire inside the Cathedral of Notre Dame in 1944.

Christopher Lydon: Graham Robb's Paris: 18 Arrested Explosions (AUDIO) 2010

Then there is the assassination attempt that Francois Mitterand stage-managed against himself in 1957 -- perhaps in a sort of homage to the "miracle" that saved Charles de Gaulle from great bursts of gunfire inside the Cathedral of Notre Dame in 1944.

Christopher Lydon: Graham Robb's Paris: 18 Arrested Explosions (AUDIO) 2010

Twenty-five years earlier, Franco-German reconciliation was cemented by two great European leaders, France's Francois Mitterand, and Germany's Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

Eric Margolis: The Dead Remind Europe Of The Folly Of War 2009

In France, no one cared when it came out that Francois Mitterand had a whole other family.

Archive 2009-01-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

By contrast, French voters had no problem with the fact that Francois Mitterand -- who passed away in 1996 after having been France's longest serving president -- was married with children, and also had a daughter with his mistress.

Myriam Miedzian: Family Values: American and French Style 2008