Fréderic Mitterand, the culture minister, spoke of a scary America that has just shown its face.

In fact, when François Mitterand was elected in 1981, the left had been out of power since 1957.

Special Representative of the Secretary General Francois Lonseny Fall (United Nations Political Office for Somalia)

The Prosecutor v. Augustin Ndindiliyimana, Augustin Bizimungu, Francois Xavier Nzuwonomeye and Innocent Sagahutu (Military II Case)

So, should the French be worried? According to Prime Minister Francois Fillon, We are not at school.

The city of Tulle where Francois Hollande used to be the mayor, waited anxiously for the results

Supporters of Francois Hollande gathered at Solferino Street before joining at the Bastille in case of a victory.

Its two passages to power ten years under Mitterand and five years with Prime Minister Lionel Jospin forced the left to reconcile with reality.

For all the authoritarian habits of de Gaulle or François Mitterand, Sarkozy s personalization of the presidency is unprecedented in the history of the Fifth Republic.

Socialist candidate Francois Hollande collected 51.90 of the votes against 48.10 for incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy in this second round of voting.

Left to right Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez, French journalist Jean Francois Fogel and co founder of the Gabriel Garcia Foundation, Jaime Abello.

Société Générale will remain a great French bank, Prime Minister Francois Fillon has said. The government will not allow it to be the target of hostile raids by other banks.

Société Générale will remain a great French bank, Prime Minister Francois Fillon has said. The government will not allow it to be the target of hostile raids by other banks.

In fact, the persistence of strong reservations about both Royal and Sarkozy helps explain the surge in popularity for a third candidate, Francois Bayrou, a traditional centrist, pro European politician.

Francois Mitterrand, by contrast, managed to assure the French only that they were not so bad, because he, Mitterrand, had served in the collaborationist Vichy regime of Marshal Pétain before joining the resistance.

On NATO, France s Middle East policy, or the constitution, Francois Mitterrand (the Socialist leader in the 1960 s) and the opposition sharply criticized de Gaulle s go it alone ways for shattering the Alliance consensus.

But the primary importance of the election result is the left s return to power for only the second time in 31 years. In fact, when François Mitterand was elected in 1981, the left had been out of power since 1957.

The fact that he has picked the moderate Francois Fillon as prime minister indicates that he is interested in obtaining real results, and that he thus plans to take the evolutionary route rather than tilting at the windmills of revolutionary change.

According to Nairobi based specialist in biodiversity and traditional medicine with the IDRC Francois Gasengayire, there is one healer for every 200 people in the Southern Africa region which is a much greater doctor to patient ratio than is found in North America.