François Mitterrand Siblings: Meet the Siblings Squad Behind the Former French Statesman
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François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was a French statesman born on 26 October 1916 in Jarnac, Charente, into a devoutly Catholic and conservative middle-class family.
His father, Joseph Mitterrand, worked as an engineer for the Compagnie Paris-Orléans railway and later managed a vinegar business, while his mother was Yvonne Lorrain.
He studied law and political science in Paris, earning diplomas from the University of Paris and the École Libre des Sciences Politiques.