Example sentences for: mitterrand

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

  • Fifteen years ago, just after François Mitterrand became president of France, I attended my first conference in Paris.

  • But I would guess 10 times as many Americans know the details of Princess Di's bulimia as have ever heard of François Mitterrand.

  • 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.

  • In France, Prime Minister François Mitterrand's mistress stood next to his wife at his funeral.

  • 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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