It is not much fun being the prime minister of France these days. It is a job encompassing humiliation, ridicule and ...

Yesterday I wrote a column about how Margaret Thatcher liberated Western Europe from the ills of Francois Mitterrand-style nationalization of industry, in part by "creating a world in which the French ...

Danielle Mitterrand, the widow of France’s former Socialist President François Mitterrand, died early Tuesday at the age of 87. A former resistance heroine, she used her position as first lady to ...

François Mitterrand's secret 30-year relationship with his mistress, the art historian Anne Pingeot, is to be laid bare with the surprise publication of a book of his love letters in which he pens his ...

The first left-wing president of the Fifth Republic died on 8 January 1996, at the age of 79. Along with a handful of Socialist Party colleagues, Macron paid his respects at 11am at the foot of ...

SPIEGEL Interview with Danielle Mitterrand Francois Mitterrand's Widow Says, "I Will Vote No" Danielle Mitterrand, 80, is the widow of former French President Francois Mitterrand. She spoke with ...

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 ...

Nobody else knew they existed. For decades, Anne Pingeot kept the 1,218 love letters she received from the late president François Mitterrand in old shoe boxes. Now she has decided to publish them to ...

Joe Biden appeared to confuse the current French president Emmanuel Macron with his predecessor Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996, during a Monday speech. The president, speaking in Las Vegas to ...

She was being treated for respiratory problems and anaemia. Three roses – two red, one white, have been attached to the door of her Paris apartment block, and several public figures have already paid ...