The last secrets of François Mitterrand

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In an investigative book, Sébastien Le Fol recounts the socialist president’s secret friendships. Between the Cagoule, the resistance and many silences…

By Said Mahrane

De François Mitterrand, we know the court and its courtiers, mimes in red scarves, idolaters of the rue de Solférino, rare guests of the rue de Bièvre, lunch companions at La Cagouille, pilgrims of Latche, social entertainers and guardians of all the secretiveness. Charles Pasqua had a sentence to sum it up: “De Gaulle left Gaullism, Mitterrand left Mitterrandians. »

Many articles, books and films have recounted this entourage, which would have been at ease, in another century, among the groves of the gardens of Versailles. But now a book tells us another story, with different, secret and influential protagonists, who do not make Mitterrand their Sun King, but only a friend.