Twenty years after his death, François Mitterrand remains an enigma. Never before has a French politician generated so much contradictory...

In the summer of 1963, François Mitterrand was going through a deep existential crisis. His political career was at a standstill and, after 19...

"What could be more unsettling than a man close to death whose profound arrogance drives him relentlessly to hang onto both his power and his...

Fourty years ago, in May 1981, with François Mitterrand's election, some people were letting themselves dream about a better life while others...