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Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into the modern world. As a statesman and as a human being, he was the incarnation of the mercurial, contrarian France which Britain and America find so perennially frustrating. He embodied the ambiguities and the contradictions of a nation whose mode
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- Author
- Short, Philip, author
- Publisher
- Bodley Head; The Bodley Head
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781847920065
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Memoir, History
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (76 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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