The nephew of former president François Mitterrand was a determine of tv, cinema, and literature, and served in authorities below Nicolas Sarkozy. He died on March 21, on the age of 76.
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Frédéric Mitterrand’s identify alone evokes a large number of pictures and episodes intertwined with France’s cultural life. Born on August 21, 1947, this man of literary and cinema tradition, the nephew of former French President François Mitterrand, died on March 21, on the age of 76. Frédéric Mitterand had been affected by most cancers for over a yr, a illness he knew all too nicely, as his elder brother Gabriel had contracted it within the spring of 2020 and ultimately recovered. This painful expertise impressed him to write down considered one of his many books, Une drôle de guerre (“A Unusual Struggle”), so titled in response to Emmanuel Macron’s repeated use of navy phrases – “We’re at conflict” – throughout his speech saying the primary Covid-19 lockdown on March 16, 2020.
In his a number of lives, this erudite and fashionable dandy had been a cinema operator, a tv present host and producer, a author, a director, a scriptwriter and a commentator on the lives of excessive society. Politically unclassifiable, Mitterrand stunned the artwork world when, in 2009, he turned tradition and communication minister below Nicolas Sarkozy, the worst enemy of the left.
Born right into a bourgeois household, he grew up alongside together with his two brothers (Gabriel and Olivier), with separated mother and father and a governess whom he didn’t bear in mind fondly. His father, Robert Mitterrand – who died in 2002 – was a highly-educated engineer, senior civil servant and the older brother of François Mitterrand. He had joined the Resistance, whereas his mom, Edith Cahier – who died in 2014 – raised their three sons. In 2002, she revealed the autobiography Ma famille Mitterrand (“My Mitterrand Household”).
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Why, on the age of 12, did Frédéric Mitterrand resolve to audition for Alex Joffé’s movie Fortunat (Lucky, 1960), starring well-known actors Bourvil and Michèle Morgan? He went to the audition alone, with a damaged arm and a shy air, with out revealing his household identify. However, he was chosen for the function below the identify Frédéric Robert. In complete, he appeared on display screen a dozen occasions, together with in Merry-Go-Spherical (1981), directed by Jacques Rivette.
After learning on the Janson-de-Sailly highschool, and a level in historical past and geography on the College of Nanterre, he graduated from the distinguished social sciences college Sciences Po, within the public service part, in 1968. Though he was eligible, he didn’t take the oral examination for the famend Nationwide College of Administration (ENA). Mitterrand didn’t keep lengthy as a trainer on the Jeannine-Manuel Energetic Bilingual College (EABJM) in Paris. In 1971, he selected cinema and acquired the Olympic movie show in Paris’ 14th arrondissement. He, who had a ardour for Elia Kazan’s Splendor within the Grass (1961), programmed a combination of Hollywood classics and lesser-known auteur movies with a global outlook.
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