François Mitterrand

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Age

109

Movies

Born: October 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996
From: Jarnac, Charente, France

Biography

François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was a French politician and statesman who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, 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 under 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 1965 and 1974 presidential elections, before being elected president in the 1981 presidential election. He was re-elected in 1988 and remained in office until 1995. Mitterrand invited the Communist Party into his first government, which was a controversial decision at the time. However, the Communists were boxed in as junior partners and, rather than taking advantage, saw their support eroded, eventually leaving the cabinet in 1984. Early in his first term, Mitterrand followed a radical left-wing economic agenda, including nationalisation of key firms and the introduction of the 39-hour work week. He likewise pushed a progressive agenda with reforms such as the abolition of the death penalty, and the end of a government monopoly in radio and television broadcasting. He was also a strong promoter of French culture and implemented a range of "Grands Projets". However, faced with economic tensions, he soon abandoned his nationalization programme, in favour of austerity and market liberalization policies. In 1985, he was faced with a major controversy after ordering the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace vessel docked in Auckland. Later in 1991, he became the first French President to appoint a female prime minister, Édith Cresson. During his presidency, Mitterrand was twice forced by the loss of a parliamentary majority into "cohabitation governments" with conservative cabinets led, respectively, by Jacques Chirac (1986–1988), and Édouard Balladur (1993–1995). Mitterrand’s foreign and defence policies built on those of his Gaullist predecessors, except in regard to their reluctance to support European integration, which he reversed. His partnership with German chancellor Helmut Kohl advanced European integration via the Maastricht Treaty, and he accepted German reunification. Less than eight months after leaving office, he died from the prostate cancer he had successfully concealed for most of his presidency. Beyond making the French Left electable, Mitterrand presided over the rise of the Socialist Party to dominance of the left, and the decline of the once-dominant Communist Party. ... Source: Article "François Mitterrand" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Works

49 films

L'Amour Fou

20106.9

Cent jours

20226.0

Écoutez La Bourse Du Travail De Paris

198210.0

Mr & Mme Adelman

20177.5

Promesses

1992

Reporters

19817.0

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

20146.5

François Mitterrand, la maladie au secret

2015

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

20227.2

The Incredible Mr. Piccoli

20176.9

Laissez-faire

201510.0

Statues Also Die

19536.9

Les vendredis d'Apostrophes

20156.0

François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie

201010.0

Mitterrand, the impossible legacy

2016

Laboratory Greece

20198.0

1974, une partie de campagne

20026.6

1974, l'alternance Giscard

20197.0

De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire

20227.0

Owners of Portugal

2012

The Revenge of Bernadette Chirac

20237.5

De Gaulle, the Last King of France

20177.0

François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story

20216.0

The Society of the Spectacle

19746.7

Mitterrand, président culturel

2021

La Malédiction de la Grande Arche

20236.0

François Mitterrand : Bâtisseur de mystères

2017

Who Is Bernard Tapie?

20014.8

Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party

20208.0

Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth

19758.5

De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile

20129.0

1958: Those Who Said No

20188.0

Mitterrand et la télé

20218.7

North Korea: A Plan to Survive

2023

Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah

20186.6

Gare du Nord : La Plus Grande Gare d'Europe

20188.0

Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... Les Présidents et les Français

20198.0

TGV, génie français du rail

20227.5

La banlieue, c’est le paradis

20256.3

10 mai 1981, le jour du grand soir

2021

Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne

2016

François Mitterrand, à bout portant : 1993-1996

20119.0

Entretien politique : Histoire et mode d'emploi

20207.0

10 mai 1981 : Changer la vie ?

20218.0

Danielle Mitterrand, une certaine idée de la France

2019

François Mitterrand, le roman du pouvoir

2002

Roland Dumas, le mauvais garçon de la république

2018

Cérémonie d'ouverture des 16èmes Jeux Olympiques d'hiver à Albertville

1992

Un mort à L'Elysée: François de Grossouvre

2013