Word: mitterrand
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...ushered to his official car, the old man turns and flashes a Delphic smile. "I'm the last of the grand presidents," he says matter-of-factly. "After me, there will be no others in France." Thus spoke François Mitterrand, obsessed with his place in history, to a young writer in May 1995 - the final month of his 14 years at the Elysée. The writer went on to put those words into the script of Le Promeneur du Champs de Mars (Walker on the Champs de Mars), director Robert Guédiguian's spare, focused film...
...brought in outside investors, in the process reducing the staff journalists' longstanding financial control of the paper from a majority to a blocking minority. Plenel led the editorial makeover, hunting for scoops and flexing the paper's political muscle. Le Monde broke the story of President François Mitterrand's long concealment of his prostate cancer, and it was all over Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's Trotskyite past...
...competition for the Socialist candidacy in the 2007 presidential race. Some of Hollande's colleagues in the yes camp - including Strauss-Kahn, former Culture Minister Jack Lang and Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë - hanker after the presidency, too. But Laurent Fabius, a former Prime Minister under François Mitterrand in the mid-'80s, is spearheading the no campaign as part of his own presidential bid. He argues that the constitution favors unfettered free markets at the expense of social policy, public service and government intervention. Fabius is appealing to the party's left wing, which includes union members...
...precocious novel of sexual disillusionment, it became a huge hit at home and sold more than a million copies in the U.S. Known for her love of drinking, fast cars and gambling as much as for her influential friendships with the likes of Tennessee Williams and French President Fran?ois Mitterrand, Sagan went on to write more than 50 books and plays over her career...
...plans to axe 5,000 tax inspectors. For an élite group of French men and women, the most egregious tax is the "solidarity tax on fortunes," probably the world's broadest tax on wealth, rather than income. Enacted in its current form in 1988 under François Mitterrand, the tax is a levy on anyone whose worldwide assets exceed €720,000. That means the values of stock and bonds, bank accounts, real estate - even personal belongings. About 300,000 French citizens and residents are subject to it, and it causes some talented taxpayers to flee. Take entrepreneur...