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,
“... history. On Antenne 2 – a state-run television channel – his face was broadcast to millions of French households. It took three seconds for the image to appear clearly, but it felt like an eternity. First, a bald head (which, at this stage, could have been mistaken for that of the incumbent, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, also bald), then the eyes and the ... ”