Republican King
Philippe Marlière: François Mitterrand, 17 April 2014
Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity
by Philip Short.
Bodley Head, 692 pp., £30, November 2013,978 1 84792 006 5 Show More
by Philip Short.
Bodley Head, 692 pp., £30, November 2013,
“... Thatcher and Helmut Kohl). He also conducted interviews with Mitterrand’s wife, Danielle, and Anne Pingeot, his long-time mistress. The result is a rich, detailed and dependable biography, framed as a ‘study in ambiguity’. Who was Mitterrand? Was he really a man of the left? Did he have any strong beliefs at all? Was he really the most successful ... ”