# François Mitterrand

> France's longest-serving president, the first from the left under the Fifth Republic, who began on the Catholic right, worked under Vichy, then spent decades outmaneuvering rivals before two terms that remade French socialism and quietly hid terminal cancer from the public.

*21st President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995 (1916-1996)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1916-10-26
- **Died:** 1996-01-08
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was born 26 October 1916 into a family whose influences set him on the Catholic nationalist right. He served under Vichy in its earlier years, then joined the Resistance and drifted left, holding ministerial posts under the Fourth Republic. He opposed de Gaulle's Fifth Republic and spent years as a politically isolated figure before outmaneuvering rivals to carry the left's banner in 1965 and 1974, losing both times. Elected president in 1981 and re-elected in 1988, he invited Communists into his first government - a controversial move that ultimately boxed them in as junior partners and eroded their support until they left the cabinet in 1984. He launched radical left-wing economics, nationalizing key firms and instituting the 39-hour work week, abolished the death penalty, ended state monopolies in broadcasting, and launched a sweep of Grands Projets, but economic pressures soon forced him toward austerity and markets. In 1985 he ordered the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland; in 1991 he appointed France's first female prime minister, Édith Cresson. Twice he governed in cohabitation with conservative cabinets le

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 74.7 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 30.3 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 19.8 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594137/ (@nm0594137)

## Topics
#Politicians, #Politician, #Politics, #Law, #Journalism, #France, #Europe, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **1996** - Died
- **1992** - Royal Victorian Chain
- **1988** - Charlemagne Prize
- **1984** - Gold Olympic Order
- **1984** - Member 2nd Class of the Order of the Umayyads
- **1982** - honorary doctor of Waseda University
- **1982** - Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic‎
- **1982** - Knight of the Order of the Elephant
- **1943** - Order of the Francisque
- **1916** - Born

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