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When, on 17 May 1995, François Maurice-Marie Mitterrand ceded his presidential mandate to his long-standing political opponent and one-time prime minister, Jacques Chirac, it marked the end of an era: one which had emerged as significantly different from that which had been originally envisaged on 10 May 1981, the date of Mitterrand’s election to the presidency and the symbolic triumph of the left, consolidated at the legislative elections held in June.
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1. See Mitterrand’s posthumous work Mémoires interrompus (Paris: Odile Jacob, 1996), p. 190.
6. Cited in Serge July, ‘Mitterrand: une histoire française’, Libération, 9 January 1996.
9. F. Mitterrand, New Year address to the nation, 31 December 1994.
11. See, for example, A. Cole, François Mitterrand: a Study in Political Leadership (London; Routledge, 1994); W. Northcutt, Mitterrand: a Political Biography (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1992).
12. Cf. A. Daley (ed.), The Mitterrand Era: Policy Alternatives and Political Mobilization in France (London: Macmillan, 1996).
13. P. Péân, Une Jeunesse française: François Mitterrand 1934-1947 (Paris: Fayard, 1994).
15. F. Mitterrand, Le Coup d’Etat permanent (Paris: Plon, 1964).
18. F. Mitterrand, Ma Part de vérité (Paris: Fayard, 1969).
20. See, for example, S. Mazey, ‘Power outside Paris’, in P.A. Hall, J. Hayward and H. Machin (eds), Developments in French Politics (London: Macmillan, 1990), pp. 152–167.
23. S. Hoffman, ‘France and Europe: the dichotomy of autonomy and cooperation’, in J. Howorth and G. Ross, Contemporary France: a Review of Interdisciplinary Studies (London: Pinter, 1987), pp. 49–50.
26. Foreword by F. Mitterrand, in F. Mitterrand and E. Wiesel, Mémoire à deux voix (Paris: Odile Jacob, 1995).
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Maclean, M. (1998). Introduction: The Mitterrand Era in Perspective. In: Maclean, M. (eds) The Mitterrand Years. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26395-0_1
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