Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld has accused President Francois Mitterrand of protecting a former Vichy official in order to conceal his own service to the Vichy regime. The stunning charge was made in an ...

A newly published book detailing the activities of French President Francois Mitterrand before, during and after World War II has sent major shockwaves through the president’s Socialist Party and the ...

François Mitterrand, who served as the President of France from 1981 to 1995, has long been known to have had an ambiguous relationship with the Nazis. As a mid-level civil servant in the wartime ...

Three decades after his death, François Mitterrand remains a defining yet contested figure in French politics. His biographer tells RFI why Mitterand's ambiguous blend of ideology and power continues ...

PARIS (dpa) – More than five years after his death from cancer, former French president Francois Mitterrand remains a Sphinx to his countrymen, monumental and impossible to decipher. This month, the ...