President François Mitterrand acted as host for invited world leaders.

When in 1981 François Mitterrand was elected president Denard lost the support of the French intelligence service, but he managed to strengthen the link between SA and the Comoros.

The alliance was especially close in the late 1980s and early 1990s under the leadership of Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl and Socialist François Mitterrand.

The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior occurred when the French government secretly bombed the ship in Auckland harbour on orders from François Mitterrand himself.

President François Mitterrand, a Socialist, for example, was forced to cohabit with the neo-Gaullist ( right wing ) Jacques Chirac, who became his prime minister from 1986 to 1988.

In 1990 France, led by François Mitterrand, joined the short lived Gulf War against Iraq, the French participation to this war would be called the Opération Daguet.

When François Mitterrand was elected President of France in 1981, he laid out an ambitious plan for a variety of construction projects.

* 1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel ( Eurotunnel ).

* 1981 – In a private meeting with U. S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.

* Chevalier de la Légion d ' Honneur by President François Mitterrand in June 1993.

In 1983, French President François Mitterrand proposed, as one of the Grands Projets of François Mitterrand the Grand Louvre plan to renovate the building and relocate the Finance Ministry, allowing displays throughout the building.

* 1994 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.

* 1981 – François Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first Socialist President of France in the French Fifth Republic.

Jobs met Paul Berg, a Nobel Laureate in chemistry, at a luncheon held in Silicon Valley to honour François Mitterrand, then President of France.

* 1916 – François Mitterrand, President of France ( d. 1996 )

This device has been used in recent years by both François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac.

The same year, French president François Mitterrand guaranteed immunity from extradition to BR members living in France who had made a break with their past, were not sentenced for violent crimes and had started a new life.

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* January 8 – François Mitterrand, President of France ( b. 1916 )

* October 26 – François Mitterrand, President of France ( d. 1996 )

* 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general ( d. 1794 )

Initially edited by Éric Rohmer ( Maurice Scherer ), it included amongst its writers Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut.

* 1855 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician ( b. 1803 )

Additionally, Cahiers critics such as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer went on to make films themselves, creating what was to become known as the French New Wave.

His work is admired by many notable directors including Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, François Truffaut, Michael Mann and Jacques Rivette.

* 1794 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general ( b. 1738 )

* General Gracia Jacques, a supporter of François Duvalier (" Papa Doc ") ( 1907 – 1971 ), Haitian dictator, whose body was exhumed and ritually beaten to ' death ' in 1986.

: Jacques ( Foley ) and François ( McDonald ) are colonial-era French trappers who paddle a canoe through the cube farm of an office building in a modern-day city, hunting businessmen and women for their pelts ( their expensive designer suits ).

Upon seeing a maimed businessman hobble away after chewing off his own leg to free himself from a bear trap, Jacques tells François to let him go, as his strong spirit may one day make him vice-president.

It was during this period while at a party that he met the daughter of a Parisian watchmaker, Monsieur Jacques François Houdin, who had also come from Jean Robert's native Blois.

Jacques François was among the last of the watchmakers to use the old methods of handcrafting each piece and embraced his new son-in-law's ambitions for mechanism.

In 1961, however, Jacques Monod, Jean-Pierre Changeux and François Jacob discovered within the bacterium Escherichia coli a gene that functioned only when " switched on " by an environmental stimulus.

Both lutenists had connections with Blancrocher and Henri de L ' Enclos, and both secured a high reputation comparable to that of François Dufaut, Jacques Gallot, or Charles Mouton.

After Pompidou's sudden death, Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing managed to overhaul the remaining Gaullist barons — with the help of Jacques Chirac —, and won the subsequent election against François Mitterrand on the left.

Giscard faced political opposition from both sides of the spectrum: from the newly unified left of François Mitterrand, and from a rising Jacques Chirac, who resurrected Gaullism on a right-wing opposition line.

He is the elder son of Jean Edmond Lucien Giscard d ' Estaing ( 1894 – 1982 ), a civil servant, and his wife, Marthe Clémence Jacqueline Marie ( May ) Bardoux, who was a daughter of senator and academic Achille Octave Marie Jacques Bardoux and a great-granddaughter of minister of state education Agénor Bardoux, also a granddaughter of historian Georges Picot and niece of diplomat François Georges-Picot, and also a great-great-great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard ( 1740 – 1769 ) through his great-grandfather Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, and by whom Giscard d ' Estaing was a multiple descendant of Charlemagne.

His two main challengers were François Mitterrand for the left and Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a former Gaullist prime minister.

He was the only surviving ex-president since he left office until the end of Jacques Chirac's term on 16 May 2007, with the exception of a brief period between François Mitterrand's retirement in 1995 and death in early 1996.

du Bellay would again help Rabelais in 1540 by seeking a papal authorization to legitimize two of his children ( Auguste François, father of Jacques Rabelais, and Junie ).

Although the first French claims date from 1638, when François Cauche and Salomon Goubert visited in June 1638, the island was officially claimed by Jacques Pronis of France in 1642, when he deported a dozen French mutineers to the island from Madagascar.

A major counterexample was the very stylish ( À Suivre ), publishing comics by Jacques Tardi, Hugo Pratt, François Schuiten and many others, and popularizing the concept of the graphic novel as a longer, more adult, more literate and artistic comic in Europe.

Major French political figures were designed by artists: Alain Duverne, Jacques Loup, Jean-Yves Grall ... representing as characters similar to those of The Muppet Show, with, for instance, François Mitterrand portrayed as a frog named Kermitterrand ( and naming himself God ), a reference to Kermit the Frog.