Word: mitterrand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cheap at the Price. Leading the way was François Mitterrand, long De Gaulle's roughest parliamentary critic and so far his chief opposition in the race, who has the joint backing of the Socialist and Communist parties. Mitterrand bore down heavily on "social injustice" in France, sneered that "De Gaulle poses problems which concerned our fathers. I am trying to pose problems which will concern our sons." The candidate on the right, Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, spoke feelingly on the subject that still rankles and moves many a Frenchman - the Gaullist betrayal of the Algerian French...