![]() · Mitterrand reveals his support for pro-Nazi regime during. Mr. Mitterrand deserted the Vichy government and joined the resistance against the. French interests. let us negotiate our landing." It was that deal that the Comte de Paris went to Vichy to work out with an unwilling Marshal Petain. Mitterrand lifts veil on his Vichy 'service'. LAST year, when two films about Vichy France appeared, Le Monde described the celluloid renditions of French collaboration with the Nazis as 'the end of a taboo'. Yesterday, the end of the taboo received an appendix, a book recounting how one man flirted with the far right and worked for Vichy: Francois Mitterrand. A French Youth: Francois Mitterrand 1. Pierre Pean and it tells how President Mitterrand not only was once an apparently loyal servant of Vichy - where he was awarded 'La Francisque', the regime's main decoration - but had belonged to the far right as a young man. The Francisque was awarded to candidates who not only could demonstrate their loyalty to Marshal Philippe Petain, the Vichy leader, but also prove pre- war activity serving the 'principles of (Vichy- minded) national revolution'. Earlier this year, the press published details of how, long after the war, Mr Mitterrand was in touch with Rene Bousquet, the Vichy police chief who was assassinated in Paris in June last year. The surprises of which Mr Mitterrand, 7. In this case, detail which would be devastating for almost any other politician has surfaced because Francois Mitterrand himself gave it to the author. A photograph taken at 5pm on 1. October 1. 94. 2 showing Mr Mitterrand and a friend talking with none other than Petain himself in his offices in the Hotel du Parc at Vichy provides the main cover picture of the book. Family. Mitterrand was born in Jarnac, Charente, and baptized François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand, the son of Joseph Mitterrand and Yvonne Lorrain. François Mitterrand, in full François-maurice-marie. he worked with the collaborationist Vichy government—a fact that did not become publicly known until. · François Mitterrand François Mitterrand, who has died aged 79. In 1942 Mitterrand took up a position with Vichy's Commissariat for PoWs. Jews Boo Mitterrand at War Memorial Because of. Jews Boo Mitterrand at War Memorial Because of Failure to. had asked Mitterrand to condemn Vichy’s role. It was given to the author by the widow of the friend, Marcel Barrois, after Mr Mitterrand gave her permission to release it. Its publication followed much whispered speculation that Mr Mitterrand and Petain had met. Barrois was to die in a camp in Germany. In Petain's diary, the meeting on 1. October 1. 94. 2 was with the 'Mutual Assistance Centre of the Allier' department, an ex- prisoners of war organisation that Mr Mitterrand was later to use as a cover for a Resistance group. While Mr Mitterrand's association with Vichy and subsequent work for the Resistance might cause little surprise - many anti- Nazi fighters used the cover of respectable positions in government service to gather information for clandestine activities - little had hitherto been mentioned about Mr Mitterrand's pre- war links with the far right. Pean said he first met Mr Mitterrand in 1. · Mitterrand worked for the Vichy administration during the second world war, and the resistance. He flirted with the political right, before embracing. Mitterrand à Vichy. Born Today. Home / Mitterrand à Vichy. Mitterrand à Vichy. Year: 2008. IMDB rate: 5.8. Director: Serge Moati Details. Country: France. Release. Anesthesiology A Comprehensive Review For The Written Boards And Recertification By Kai Matthes Editor Richard Urman Editor Jesse Ehrenfeld Editor. President invited him to discuss one of his earlier historical works. Last year, Pean asked to see Mr Mitterrand and told him he intended to write an account of his youth and wartime years. Is it useful?' Mr Mitterrand asked, according to Pean. He added: 'I've nothing to hide. I'll help you.' Pean said the President told him: 'In troubled times, it's difficult to make the right choice. · François Mitterand: A womanising president who shaped Europe. when Mitterrand was the unsuccessful Socialist candidate against. Vichy versus.I didn't come out of it too badly.'One of the two sponsors for Mr Mitterrand's 'Francisque' was Gabriel Jeantet, a member of Petain's staff and a former member of the pre- war 'La Cagoule' (The Hood), a secret right- wing organisation set up to topple the republic before the war. Pean documents the future Socialist President's participation in a number of far- right demonstrations in the 1. The sphinx. Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity. By Philip Short. The Bodley Head; 6. To be published in America in April as “A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand” by Henry Holt; $3. Buy from Amazon. com, Amazon. ON THE night of François Mitterrand’s death in 1. French president, Jacques Chirac, summed up the wily Socialist leader as the “reflection of his century”. The son of a stationmaster from Angoulême, who was taken prisoner by the Germans during the second world war, Mitterrand rose to become a cabinet minister at the age of 3. Fifth Republic’s first Socialist president. He embodied many of the 2. Mitterrand worked for the Vichy administration during the second world war, and the resistance. He flirted with the political right, before embracing socialism with zeal, and then austerity and liberalisation with reluctance. He denounced the all- powerful presidency created by Charles de Gaulle, only to exercise power himself in the manner of a republican monarch. How did Mitterrand navigate such a brilliant, exasperating, snakelike path to the presidency, and re- election in 1. In this thoroughly researched biography, Philip Short, a former Paris correspondent for the BBC, shows the answer to be a mix of breathless cunning and ruthless artistry. Mitterrand was certainly dogged: as a student, he became infatuated with a teenaged Parisienne to whom he wrote 2,0. He was uncompromising too. As president, he would “never accept”, he snapped, the idea of apologising for Vichy’s crimes. The French were appalled to discover his lifelong friendship with René Bousquet, head of the Vichy police, exposed by Pierre Péan, a French investigative journalist. His 1. 99. 4 landmark biography, “A French Youth”, covered the period 1. Each year, Mr Péan went on to reveal, the Socialist president sent an official wreath to be laid at the tomb of the Vichy leader, Marshall Pétain. Mitterrand was also deeply cynical, turning to socialism “less from conviction than from a process of elimination”, writes Mr Short. His searing experience in a prisoner- of- war camp in Germany reawakened a sense of injustice at the arbitrary social hierarchies that had dominated his childhood in rural Catholic France. But the aspirant politician equivocated. Politically, I’m really hesitating,” he wrote to a friend in 1. I’d be quite willing to join the Socialists, but they are such old clots. The Communists are a pain and the others are all varlets and knaves.”Mitterrand was cultured and bookish, with a bewitching ability to charm; “he could have seduced a stone”, wrote one French female journalist. But the president was also devious, intimidating, secretive and darkly manipulative, ever ready to break a pact and betray a confidence in pursuit of power and the exercise of it. His decision to appoint an ambitious Gaullist politician, Jacques Chirac, as prime minister in 1. Chirac], just as he had done earlier to the Communist Party”. Much of the political intrigue and scandal of this scholarly book will be familiar to students of the “Sphinx”. Yet Mr Short has also delved into the state archives, as well as extracted confidences from Mitterrand’s wife, Danielle, who died in 2. Anne Pingeot, his mistress, to produce some gems. In the corridors during a European summit, for instance, at which Helmut Kohl agreed to monetary union if Britain and France would accept German reunification, Mitterrand displays an obsessional fear about a unified Germany, telling Margaret Thatcher that it was like Munich in 1. Ambiguity reached deep into his private as well as political life. In the 1. 97. 0s the Mitterrand couple lived together with their younger son and Danielle’s lover, Jean Balenci, who would go out to fetch croissants in the morning for them all. To outsiders,” reports Mr Short, “he was introduced as a distant cousin.” As president, Mitterrand would return after work at the Elysée Palace to Ms Pingeot and their daughter, Mazarine, whom he hid, like his cancer, from the general public and kept at the taxpayer’s expense. We did not set out to have separate lives,” Danielle tells Mr Short: “Things happened.” Mitterrand’s personal behaviour, the author concludes, “was supremely egoistic”. The man who emerges from these pages is both brilliant and flawed. He utterly misread Mikhail Gorbachev and the end of the cold war and he was on the wrong side of history during the Rwandan genocide in 1. He procrastinated to excess. He was above all a master of the art of political secrecy and survival, in an era when ambiguity was not subject to the sort of scrutiny that would expose it far more brutally today.
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