Danielle Mitterrand
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Danielle Mitterrand (born Danielle Émilienne Isabelle Gouze 29 October 1924 in Verdun) is the widow of François Mitterrand and president of the foundation France Libertés Fondation Danielle Mitterrand.
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[edit] Biography
When she was seventeen years old, her family (her parents were professors) aided the French Resistance and helped lodge men of the Maquis (French Resistance) , and she became a liaison officer in the Resistance. She met François Mitterrand there, whom she married after the liberation three years later, on 28 October 1944.
She founded her foundation in 1986 with the fusion of three smaller associations started in 1981.
Danielle Mitterrand has three sons: Pascal (who died in childhood), Jean-Christophe and Gilbert Mitterrand.
[edit] Opinions
Mrs. Mitterrand has been a long time supporter of Cuba and its Marxist-Leninist government. [1] On the other hand, she is very critical with respect to Turkey, opposing its accession to the European Union.[citation needed] She has voiced her views in favour of the Sahrawi[citation needed], Subcomandante Marcos[citation needed], the Tibetan[citation needed] and Kurdish peoples[citation needed], among others.
She supported a "no" vote in the 2005 French referendum on the European Constitution.[citation needed]
[edit] Awards
In 1996 she was one of the winners of the North-South Prize.[2]
[edit] Works
- These men are first our brothers (Ces hommes sont avant tout nos frères), Ramsay, 1996, on the Indians of Chiapas
- Torture in Tunisia: Committee for freedom and human rights in Tunisia (La torture en Tunisie : Comité pour le respect des libertés et des droits de l’homme en Tunisie), Le temps des cerises, 2000
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| Preceded by Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing |
First Lady of France 1981 - 1995 |
Succeeded by Bernadette Chirac |
