Socialist President Mitterrand gets his parliament and a mandate
For the past 34 years, he has celebrated Pentecost Sunday by leading a small group of family and friends on a climb up the Rock of Solutré, a steep and scenic ascent near the medieval Abbey of Cluny in east central France. The locale has a special meaning for him. It was there that his wife's family sheltered members of the Resistance during the German Occupation. After the war, the annual Solutré pilgrimage became a tradition with François Mitterrand, an...
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