François Mitterrand
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François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was President of France from 1981 to 1995. He was the first left-wing politician to assume the presidency under the Fifth Republic, successfully remaining in o
Mitterrand in 1983
Mitterrand in 1933
Mitterrand (right) with Philippe Pétain on 15 October 1942
Mitterrand as War Veterans Minister in February 1947
Jacques Chirac
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Jacques René Chirac was President of France from 1995 to 2007. He was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and 1986 to 1988, as well as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.
François Mitterrand
…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…
Official portrait, June 1995.
Chirac with Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu during a visit to Neptun, 1975
Jacques Chirac with president François Mitterrand (1986)
President Ronald Reagan, Jacques Chirac, Nancy Reagan and Bernadette Chirac, (White House, March 1987)