Francois Hollande is the first Socialist president of France since another Francois, Mitterrand, swept to power in 1981, where he remained for 14 years. They are the only presidents from the left in ...
Sir Robert Armstrong and M. Bérégevoy, Secretary General of the Elysée, held at the Cabinet Office, 10 Sep. 1981, 5:45pm, TNA PREM19/470, p. 3. Note of a ...
Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in 1981, was inducted into the Pantheon in Paris on ...
President Emmanuel Macron hailed the former French justice minister's 'voice advocating for these great, essential and ...