“What do I remember of François Mitterrand on 10th May 1981” asked François Hollande, the MP for Corrèze, on the French TV channel Canal +. “It’s the victory, the determination, the will, the ability ...

"I will love you until the end of me," he writes to his lover Anne Pingeot in one of more than 1,200 letters to be published next Thursday. "Feelings that I never knew are aroused with you," reads ...

On May 10, 1981, François Mitterrand won his first presidential election, marking the start of a 14-year period in office that is being fondly commemorated across France. But it’s the future - not the ...

If it’s May 10 in France, it must be François Mitterrand Day. Not officially, of course (while the nation has named a library, an embankment of the Seine, and other venues after the late president, it ...

Though French President from 1981-95, Mitterrand’s political and private life hark to a different era, finds Allan Massie Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get ...

Paris - The world has long known that Francois Mitterrand had a 33-year affair that produced his daughter Mazarine, but only now can the fervour of the love between the then French president and his ...

A ceremony at Mitterrand’s childhood home in the western town of Jarnac climaxed days of official remembrance – and served as a forum for Socialists hoping to return to power in presidential elections ...

This is a story about a literary aficionado. He loved literature, philosophy and writing. He read works of Chinese writers such as Ba Jin and Cao Yu. He made no secret of his fascination about China, ...