François Mitterrand: Difference between revisions

| primeminister = [[Pierre Mauroy]]<br />[[Laurent Fabius]]<br />[[Jacques Chirac]]<br />[[Michel Rocard]]<br />[[Édith Cresson]]<br />[[Pierre Bérégovoy]]<br />[[Édouard Balladur]]

| successor = [[Jacques Chirac]]

| predecessor2 = [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]]

| party = [[Croix-de-Feu|Cross of Fire]] {{small|(Before 1936)}}<br />[[Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance]] {{small|(1945–1964)}}<br />[[Convention of Republican Institutions]] {{small|(1964–1971)}}<br />[[Socialist Party (France)|Socialist Party]] {{small|(1971–1996)}}

| death_place = [[Paris]], France

| resting_place = Cimetiere des Grands-Maisons <br />[[Jarnac]], France

| alma_mater = [[University of Paris]]<br />[[Sciences Po]]

| website = {{url|mitterrand.org/index.php|Mitterrand Institute}}

| term_start1 = 21 May 1981

| term_end1 = 17 May 1995

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'''François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand''' (26 October 1916 - 8 January 1996) was a [[France|French]] [[politician]] who served as the [[President of the French Republic]] from 21 May 1981 until 17 May 1995. He was born in [[Jarnac]] in the [[Charente]] department. He was a member of the [[Socialist Party (France)|Socialist Party]]. Before being elected president, he had held several positions in the French [[Cabinet]]. As President of France, he was also one of the [[Co-Princes of Andorra]]. [[Jacques Chirac]] was President of France and ''ex officio'' Co-Prince of Andorra after him. Mitterrand died of [[prostate cancer]] in [[Paris]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/09/world/francois-mitterrand-dies-at-79-champion-of-a-unified-europe.html|title=Francois Mitterrand Dies at 79; Champion of a Unified Europe|work=The New York Times|date=January 9, 1996|accessdate=August 21, 2011}}</ref> He was laid to rest in his birthplace Jarnac.