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 ...

When Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were establishing the global mood music of the monetarist, greed-is-good 1980s, Pierre Mauroy sought to make France dance to a different tune. As the first ...

Robert Badinter, the lawyer and former justice minister who led France to end the death penalty, will be inducted into the Panthéon in Paris on Thursday – 44 years to the day after the abolition law ...

President Emmanuel Macron hailed the former French justice minister's 'voice advocating for these great, essential and ...