8 Facts About Hollande

1. Francois Hollande will take part in talks with David Cameron and meet the Queen today during his one-day visit to Britain today.

2. In 1979, while still a student, Hollande joined the Socialist Party, and he worked as an economic adviser in the administration of Pres.

3. On 25 January 2014, Hollande officially announced his separation from Valerie Trierweiler after the tabloid magazine Closer revealed his affair with actress Julie Gayet.

4. In September 2015, Hollande warned former Eastern Bloc countries against rejecting the EU mandatory migrant quotas, saying: "Those who don't share our values, those who don't even want to respect those principles, need to start asking themselves questions about their place in the European Union".

5. On 27 February 2014, Hollande was a special guest of honor in Abuja, received by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in celebration of Nigeria's amalgamation in 1914, a 100-year anniversary.

6. In 2014, Hollande took some of these troops out of Mali and spread them over the rest of the Sahel under Operation Barkhane, in an effort to curb jihadist militants.

7. On 11 January 2013, Hollande authorised the execution of Operation Serval, which aimed to curtail the activities of Islamist extremists in the north of Mali.

8. Francois Hollande was born on 12 August 1954 in Rouen.