Socialist Party (France)
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The Socialist Party is a centre-left to left-wing political party in France. It holds social democratic and pro-European views. The PS was for decades the largest party of the "French Left" and used t
From left to right: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Bertrand Delanoë and Ségolène Royal sitting in the front row at a meeting held on 6 February 2007 by the PS at the Carpentier Hall in Paris
Rue de Solférino, a party seat in Paris which was sold to Apsys in December 2017 for 45.55 million euros
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
Socialist Party (France)
…The PS was founded in 1969 from a merger of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), the Convention of Republican Institutions led by François Mitterrand, and other groups. In the 1970s, the PS surpassed the Communist Party's share of the left-wing vote. It first won power in 1981, when Mitterrand was…
Mitterrand in 1983
Mitterrand in 1933
Mitterrand (right) with Philippe Pétain on 15 October 1942
Mitterrand as War Veterans Minister in February 1947