François Mitterrand à bout portant 19931996

What could be more unsettling than a man close to death whose profound arrogance drives him relentlessly to hang onto both his power and his writing to the bitter end In the twilight of his second sevenyear term François Mitterrand was alone Ravaged by illness and abandoned by a large majority of the Socialist Party who would not forgive him for the disastrous outcome of the March 1993 elections the Head of State was preparing to tackle a second round of cohabitation with the right wing However a series of unexpected tragedies and revelations would arise casting a shadow over the end of his reign