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A Child of Nurture
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If the late french President François Mitterrand was criticized for the regal manner in which he occupied his office, the activities of his eldest son also seem characteristic of a royal family of the dysfunctional kind. Just nine months after his release from provisional detention for suspected involvement in illegal arms trafficking, Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, in a new book, exonerates himself not only of those charges but also of his life in general. In
Mémoire Meurtrie (Battered Memory)
, Mitterrand fils, 54, casts himself as what else? a victim, first of a hard, cynical family, and then of outsiders hoping...