I learnt his disappearance during a meeting in Rome. We made me spend a note : "We regret to announce you that President François Mitterrand died this morning".
Obviously, what we lied ... I know him since 1967. All that we made together, this hard work at the socialist party and at the Government ... the moment also to think about this man, his contradictions, his qualities, his defects, remember itself memories extremely positive.
François Mitterrand was, to my knowledge, the only french politician to have assumed in his acts what he said in his speeches. In other words he allowed a certain number of women to make a political career.
He always considered that women and men must be treated on a total equal footing. For him, women have the same qualities, of corse with an a little different mode of expression, a diffenrent way of working, to size files.