François Marie Adrien Maurice Mitterrand (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was President of France, serving under that position from 1981 to 1995, the longest time in office in the history of France.

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 ...

On 10 May, 1981, Socialist president François Mitterrand swept the French left to power after 23 years in opposition. It was an historic triumph for a party that is struggling to remain relevant four ...

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 ...

President Biden on Sunday appeared to mix up French President Emmanuel Macron with a former leader of the European country who’s been dead for nearly three decades. During a campaign speech in Las ...

Dumas, a Socialist, was France’s foreign minister between 1984 and 1986, and then a second time between 1988 and 1993. After his time in government, Dumas went on to preside France’s Constitutional ...

Novelist Amy Tan talks to Anne McElvoy about her new book The Valley of Amazement, set in China and America and spanning the first half of the 20th century. Show more Amy Tan, bestselling writer of ...

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Paris that French authorities have jailed a son of the late president Francois Mitterrand on suspicion of illegal arms sales to Angola. Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, once ...