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Francois Mitterand was elected president of France in May 1981, the first
socialist president of the French republic. He abolished the death penalty.
From 1986 to 1988 some of his socialist reforms were removed by a conservative-dominated parliament. He was re-elected in 1988. |
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Valery Giscard d'Estaing
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Paris Pages obituary
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