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...past 34 years, he has celebrated Pentecost Sunday by leading a small group of family and friends on a climb up the Rock of Solutr??, a steep and 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 Solutr?? pilgrimage became a tradition with François Mitterrand, an occasion to reunite with relatives and old war friends...
There may be Solutr??s for years to come, but the political ascension of Franéois 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...
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