Mitterrand
François Mitterrand was President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest-serving French president and the first Socialist to hold the office under the Fifth Republic.
His presidency saw nationalizations, later privatizations, abolition of the death penalty, and closer European integration.
Mitterrand's legacy remains debated in France.
Proponent of collective ownership
- cohabitationDwelling together unmarried
- reelectionVoting someone back in
- nationalizationGovernment acquisition of industry
- MaastrichtDutch border city
European Union · prime minister · constitutional · 1981 · 1988 · 1995 · executive · mandate
Letter's closing addition
- communistsCollective ownership advocates
- nationalizationGovernment acquisition of industry
- first secretaryRuling party's top position
- ruptureViolent tearing apart
capitalism · workers · electoral coalition · progressive · reform · militancy
French thermal resort town
- ResistanceOrganized anti-occupation movement
- prisonerConfined criminal detainee
- escapeFlight from captivity
- ambiguityOpenness to multiple interpretations
collaboration · POW · stalag · de Gaulle · Free French · occupation · liberation · controversy
Female given name
- scandalDisgraceful public affair
- cancerUncontrolled cell proliferation disease
- prostateMale reproductive gland
- secrecyPractice of hiding information
roses · literature · funeral · Notre-Dame · private life · family · illness · death
Modern glass entry structure
- architectureBuilding design discipline
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- modernizationAdoption of current methods
- ParisFrance's chief city
I.M. Pei · cultural · public works · construction · landmark · urban renewal · glass pyramid · commemoration
socialist
Proponent of collective ownership
- cohabitationDwelling together unmarried
- reelectionVoting someone back in
- nationalizationGovernment acquisition of industry
Maastricht · European Union · prime minister · constitutional · 1981 · 1988 · 1995 · executive · mandate · inauguration
PS
Letter's closing addition
- communistsCollective ownership advocates
- nationalizationGovernment acquisition of industry
- first secretaryRuling party's top position
rupture · capitalism · workers · electoral coalition · progressive · reform · militancy
Vichy
French thermal resort town
- ResistanceOrganized anti-occupation movement
- prisonerConfined criminal detainee
- escapeFlight from captivity
ambiguity · collaboration · POW · stalag · de Gaulle · Free French · occupation · liberation · controversy · wartime
Danielle
Female given name
- scandalDisgraceful public affair
- cancerUncontrolled cell proliferation disease
- prostateMale reproductive gland
secrecy · roses · literature · funeral · Notre-Dame · private life · family · illness · death · mistress
Louvre Pyramid
Modern glass entry structure
- architectureBuilding design discipline
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- modernizationAdoption of current methods
I.M. Pei · Paris · cultural · public works · construction · landmark · urban renewal · glass pyramid · commemoration · prestige
- Franco-GermanAlsace, Alsace-Lorraine, Alsatian, Franco-Prussian War, Rhine
- French Leadersde Gaulle, Pompidou, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon III, Louis XIV
- French PoliticsNational Assembly, French politics, French president, deputy, senator
- Left-Wing Politicsleft wing, leftists, far left, Marxism, socialism
- Political LeadersJoseph Stalin, Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Lenin, Mao Zedong
- officialsofficial, officials, bailiff, bureaucrat, congressman