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...formal inaugural ceremony was as laconic as tradition allowed. President of the Constitutional Council Roger Frey read a brief statement declaring that Mitterrand had won a majority of votes in the May 10 election. Mitterrand then stepped to the microphones and made a four-minute speech that was obviously intended to convey reassurance rather than radicalism. "It is natural for a great nation to have great ambitions," he said. "In today's world, can there be a loftier duty for our country than to achieve a new alliance between socialism and liberty?" Speaking of his election, he said, "There...
Minutes later, Mitterrand's first Cabinet choice was announced. Pierre Mauroy, 52, the mayor of the northern industrial city of Lille and longtime Socialist Party stalwart, was named Premier in the interim government that will rule until the parliamentary elections take place next month. Other ministerial appointments announced later in the week included some familiar names in the hierarchy of the Socialist Party. The new Foreign Minister will be Claude Cheysson, 61, the architect of the European Community's liberal Third World trade policy. Banker Jacques Delors, 55, once a key adviser to former Gaullist Premier Jacques Chaban...
Following the ritual wreath laying at the tomb of the unknown soldier under the Arc de Triomphe-attended by such fellow Socialists as former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Greek Actress and Parliamentarian Melina Mercouri-Mitterrand proceeded to the Left Bank and a new ceremony of his own: a pilgrimage to the Panthéon that provided a television spectacular that was even better orchestrated than Giscard's farewell...
...teau near the Loire Valley town of Authon, in possible imitation of Charles de Gaulle, who spent twelve years in his country house before returning to power in 1958. Giscard plans to start work on his memoirs while awaiting the anguished call that he believes will inevitably come after Mitterrand-as he foresees it-has crippled France's economy and its political institutions. "In my Loire Valley retreat," Giscard had mused bitterly in a pre-election allusion to his possible defeat, "I will be the most popular man in France." -By Patricia Blake. Reported by Henry Muller/Paris
François Mitterrand needed a moderate Premier who could reassure a nation still caught uneasily between jubilation and the jitters over the novelty of a Socialist in the Elysée Palace. But he could not accept another bloodless technocrat of the kind that he had criticized in the Giscard regime. He needed a political figure with a popular touch. No one fit that description better than Pierre Mauroy, 52. The big (6 ft. 2 in.) burly mayor of the northern industrial center of Lille, Mauroy (pronounced Mawr-wah) is an archetypal man of the north, pragmatic, hardworking...