Mazarine et francois mitterrand biography
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Profile: Mazarine Pingeot, Mitterrand's love child - and where is she now?
Mazarine Pingeot, the French novelist, journalist, and philosophy lecturer at Sciences Po Bordeaux, was born on December 18,
However, she experienced something of a second birth on November 3, – the day her real identity was finally revealed to the rest of the world in a sensational edition of the weekly news magazine Paris Match.
That day, one million French people headed to newsstands to get their copy to gawp at the exclusive paparazzi pictures of her alongside former socialist president François Mitterrand.
“People had to go to five or six different kiosks or drive 10km just to get a copy. It was the only topic of discussion. People wanted to see,” said photographer Pascal Rostain, who sold the pictures to Paris Match.
Shutting out the world
The images testified to what, until then, only a small circle of people knew: that Mazarine was Mitterrand’s illegitimate daughter, a fact he had never publicl
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François Mitterrand: Former French president's 'other woman' finally reveals all about their year affair in a new biography
A biography of François Mitterrand, one of France’s best loved presidents, has caused a stir before it even hits the shelves, as it reveals for the first time in French his mistress’s account of their year affair.
The French press have been asking Anne Pingeot to speak for years, but it was the BBC’s Philip Short who managed to secure the art historian’s first and only interview in his book Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity, which was published in the UK in
Unsurprisingly, Mr Short’s conversations with Ms Pingeot have drummed up a significant amount of interest.
Excerpts published in French for the first time in Tuesday’s L’Express magazine throw light on the life of the “woman in the shadows”, whose relationship with the President was widely known but tacitly ignored by the press until the end of his second begrepp in
“There are so many people that are
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François Mitterrand
President of France from to
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François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand[a] (26 October &#;&#; 8 January ) was a French politician and statesman who served as President of France from to , the longest holder of that position in the history of France. As a former Socialist Party First Secretary, he was the first left-wing politician to assume the presidency under the Fifth Republic.
Due to family influences, Mitterrand started his political life on the Catholic nationalist right. He served under the Vichy regime during its earlier years. Subsequently, he joined the Resistance, moved to the left, and held ministerial office several times beneath the Fourth Republic. Mitterrand opposed Charles de Gaulle's establishment of the Fifth Republic. Although at times a politically isolated figure, he outmanoeuvred rivals to become the left's standard bearer in the and presidentia