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...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 Fran??ois Mitterrand, an occasion to reunite with relatives and old war friends...
There may be Solutrés for years to come, but the political ascension of Fran??ois Mitterrand has peaked: he can go no higher. On Sunday he scored the most smashing triumph of his career as voters gave his Socialist Party a solid majority of some 290 seats in the 491-member National Assembly. At the same time, the Communists, his troublesome allies, lost hope of playing an influential role in the government when they dropped from 86 seats to an estimated 43. For the first time since former President Charles de Gaulle's landslide in 1968, a single party...
Whether he does so or not, there is little doubt that Fran??ois Mitterrand will be the real power in France until at least 1986. It is on the basis of his own acts, and not his ideology, that he will be judged. Addressing a word of advice to Americans, L.S.E.'s Dahrendorf cautions: "Don't think that because it is a Socialist government, it must pursue policies unacceptable to the U.S. Hold off and see what they do in practice. If you do that, you may end up finding Mitterrand's France easy to live with." And so might...
Despite the high stakes for him as well as the nation, Fran??ois Mitterrand stayed serenely above the battle, employing the same tactic that had served him so well in the last stages of the presidential race. Embodying the force tranquille of his campaign slogan, he issued only one brief political statement last week, urging voters to "give me the means to apply my program." The new President actually sought to avoid appearing in public or on television. Leaving campaign strategy in the hands of Premier Pierre Mauroy, Mitterrand spent his long workdays huddling with aides over economic reform plans...
...what it really means, was not entirely clear even to the French, who delight in precise analysis. The most likely explanation was that the French, alarmed by rising inflation and unemployment, and tired of Gisçard's imperial style, had simply voted for change and thus wound up with Fran??ois Mitterrand in the Elysée. At that point, according to this view, the logical French gave the new President a clear-cut Socialist majority in order to avoid a constitutional deadlock or a messy coalition with the Communists. "Having opted for change, French voters knew enough not to throw...