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Jacques Attali, 37, another economist, is Mitterrand's personal chief of staff and one of the few members of the group who owes his position mainly to his loyalty to the new President. Attali manages to spend part of almost every day with Mitterrand, offering political advice as well as intellectual stimulation...
...another, François Mitterrand and his Socialists must come to grips with the other major force on the French left, the 500,000-member Communist Party of France (P.C.F.). That will be no easy thing to do. Relations between the two parties over the years resemble nothing so much as a complicated minuet. For a while the parties move in step, and then they each go their separate and stubborn ways...
Traditionally, the well-organized Communists have been able to count on 20% of France's electoral vote. In April that figure dropped to 15.3%, the lowest since 1936. More than any other factor, that led the party's leaders to take up their dance with Mitterrand once again...
...politicians, he has emerged as the "chameleon." His recondite politics is inevitably labeled Florentine in the press. His most recent biographer, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, described him as "ambivalent." Wrote Giesbert: "He is misanthropic and sociable, naive and calculating, sincere and deceitful." In fact, François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand is as much an enigma to the French, who elected him President of the Republic, as he is to the rest of the world...
...almost neurotically shy man has endured in spite of his exposure to 37 years of public life. It has been reinforced by his bizarre shifts from right to left and, especially, his zigzag relationship with the Communist Party. Most of all, the mystery has been fostered by the distance Mitterrand has placed between himself and all but his family and a few intimate friends. In the end the best analyst of the character-and the methods-of Mitterrand may be Mitterrand himself. His observations, perceptive, witty and often elegant, run through his eleven books...