Example sentences for: mitterrand

How can you use “mitterrand” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As the home of the Vénus de Milo and Mona Lisa, the Louvre drew almost unmanageable crowds until President Mitterrand ordered its re-organization in the 1980s.

  • Referring to the late President François Mitterrand's establishment of a special court to try Fabius et al.

  • The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reminded readers of the leaders' intimacy by republishing a famous 1984 photograph of Kohl and Mitterrand standing hand in hand at the site of the bloody battle of Verdun during a Franco-German reconciliation ceremony to commemorate World War I.

  • Mitterrand was said to have used France's state-owned Elf energy group in 1992 to channel millions of dollars to Kohl's Christian Democratic Union in order to get him re-elected-an odd idea because Mitterrand was a socialist and Kohl the leader of Europe's most powerful conservative party.

  • In an editorial, Le Monde of Paris said Thatcher had tried to convince Mitterrand to join her in open opposition to a united Germany, but "the French president was too well-advised to directly oppose a movement which had surprised him, which he mistrusted, and which he may well have feared, but which he also knew to be inevitable."


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