François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996)<!--full dates in infobox, per MOS--> was a French politician and statesman who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France. As a former Socialist Party First Secretary, he was the first left-wing politician to assume the presidency under the Fifth Republic. Wikipedia
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