25 Facts About Francois Mitterrand Library

1. Francois Mitterrand Library was thus a leading proponent of the Treaty on European Union, which provided for a centralized European banking system, a common currency, and a unified foreign policy.

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2. Francois Mitterrand Library called legislative elections soon after his victory, and a new left-wing majority in the National Assembly enabled his prime minister, Pierre Mauroy, to effect the reforms Mitterrand had promised.

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3. Francois Mitterrand Library moved at once to carry out what appeared to be the voters' mandate.

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4. Francois Mitterrand Library picked Laurent Fabius, a young loyal Mitterrandiste, as his new prime minister.

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5. In 1990 Francois Mitterrand Library declared an amnesty for those under investigation, thus ending the affair.

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6. Francois Mitterrand Library died in Paris on 8 January 1996 at the age of 79 from prostate cancer, a condition he and his doctors had concealed for most of his presidency.

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7. Francois Mitterrand Library sharply criticized the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan as well as the country's nuclear weapons buildup.

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8. Francois Mitterrand Library supported closer European collaboration and the preservation of France's special relationship with its former colonies, which he feared were falling under "Anglo-Saxon influence.

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9. On 16 February 1993, President Francois Mitterrand Library inaugurated in Frejus a memorial to the wars in Indochina.

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10. Francois Mitterrand Library continued to promote the new technologies initiated by his predecessor Valery Giscard d'Estaing: the TGV high speed train and the Minitel, a pre-World Wide Web interactive network similar to the web.

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11. In 1969, Francois Mitterrand Library could not run for the Presidency: Guy Mollet refused to give him the support of the SFIO.

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12. Francois Mitterrand Library took the lead of a centre-left alliance: the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left.

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13. In 1965, Francois Mitterrand Library was the first left-wing politician who saw the presidential election by universal suffrage as a way to defeat the opposition leadership.

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14. Francois Mitterrand Library visited China in 1961, during the worst of the Great Chinese Famine, but denied the existence of starvation.

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15. In 1958, Francois Mitterrand Library was one of the few to object to the nomination of Charles de Gaulle as head of government, and to de Gaulle's plan for a Fifth Republic.

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16. Francois Mitterrand Library built up a resistance network, composed mainly of former POWs.

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17. Francois Mitterrand Library worked from January to April 1942 for the Legion francaise des combattants et des volontaires de la revolution nationale as a civil servant on a temporary contract.

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18. Francois Mitterrand Library became involved in the social organisation for the POWs in the camp.

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19. Francois Mitterrand Library was at the end of his national service when the war broke out.

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20. Francois Mitterrand Library took membership for about a year in the Volontaires nationaux, an organisation related to Francois de la Rocque's far-right league, the Croix de Feu; the league had just participated in the 6 February 1934 riots which led to the fall of the second Cartel des Gauches (Left-Wing Coalition).

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21. Francois Mitterrand Library studied from 1925 to 1934 in the College Saint-Paul in Angouleme, where he became a member of the Jeunesse Etudiante Chretienne, the student organisation of Action catholique.

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22. Francois Mitterrand Library invited the Communist Party into his first government, which was a controversial decision at the time.

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23. Francois Mitterrand Library died in Paris on January 8, 1996, at the age of 79.

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24. Francois Mitterrand Library opened to the public in 1692, under the administration of Abbe Louvois, Minister Louvois's son.

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25. Francois Mitterrand Library was succeeded by his son who was replaced, when executed for treason, by Jerome Bignon, the first of a line of librarians of the same name.

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