>Be François Mitterand>Born in 1916 in an notable catholic and consevative family in the region of Charente >Start his political life as a litteral Fascist>Get an administrative position in Vichy France>Starts to slowly distance himself from the regime after 1942 and became a passive resistant.>Defect to de Gaulle's side in 1944 and then become a center-left politician in the 50', and even minister of some governements. Somehow managing to make everyone forget he was a right-winger 15 years prior.>When de Gaulle comes back in 1958, he's one of the few to actually oppose him.>Takes control of the Socialist Party, and forces the Crypto-communists led by Chevènement and the liberal wing of the party led by Rocard to work together so they can chip out the center left and the communist party.>Forces the communist party to agree to an alliance in the 70' thereby Neutralizing them>Use said Alliance to defeat centrist president Giscard in 1981 and become President.>Proceed to betray most of the left's promises and made the communist party a non factor>Eventually destroys the political career of Rocard who was threatening him>Allows the creation of the Front National to divide the Right>Run for a second term>Humiliate Jacques Chirac in the debate, and be reelected.>Proceed to lead the country till 1995>Dies six months laterWhen a journalist asked in 1981 "What does it feel to be elected by the left people", Mitterand responded : "20 Years of drinking kir".That Dude was a realistic James Bond Villain. he took over the left and destroyed it from the inside just for his own political career.
>>17276596Here's the wiki :https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand
>>17276596>>Eventually destroys the political career of Rocard who was threatening himOnce, off record, he was asked who he'd prefer to succeed him, to which he answered:>in order of preference : Jacques Delors, François Léotard, Raymond Barre, Giscard d'Estaing, my doing, Michel RocardHe was a witty cunt, but also a pragmatic kind of guy with skeletons in his closet.He put writers and journalists on tap. Cockblocking the release of a book telling another of his secrets: he had an illegitimate daughter (that we have to endure now on television).One of his minister of finance killed himself but some speculated that it wasn't.But what's the most intriguing was his paradoxes, hanging out with far right guys when he was a young man and then becoming a socialist later, being the interior minister in the 50's and crushing the first demands for independence in Algeria (before the war started) and yet being the president that ended capital punishment.He was also a very very cultured man, our last intelligent president, but he pushed leftist shitty art, financing it, to create a new caste of artists that would chill for him.That's his most lasting heritage I would say.
>>17276687>Giscard d'Estaing, my *dog, Michel Rocard
>>17276687>Illegitimate daughter Who?
>>17276691Mazarine Pingeot
We also owe to him the Pyramid of the Louvres, rightwing people were super pissed about this at the time.
And the columns of Buren.
>>17276708>>17276710based, if the french aren't willing to hang socialists from lampposts they get what they deserve
>>17276687>our last intelligent presidentChirac was far from being a dumbass. Putin considered him one of the greatest man he ever met. We're talking about a guy that lear to write sanskrit at 8, had an encylopedic knowledge of both islam and Japanese culture, on top of knowing America pretty well and without even being a snob.It's just that chirac took comfort in making people believe he was a dumbass, and liked being surrounded by idiots, because he previously was denied power by the 2 politician that matched his intelligence : Mitterand and Giscard.Sarkozy was an absolute dumbass, Hollande too, And Macron is only slightly less idiotic.
>>17276839OK, you're right, I've been unfair to Jacques Chirac. I just don't like the guy.
>>17277049Pierre Yves Rougeron once said that the problem With Chirac, is that he was a coward. He had the intellect to be a great man but simply did not care enough, he refused to join the Iraq war, but let the americans destroy the middle east. He could have made alliances and pact with post cold war emeging powers, and he did nothing. He respected the referundum in 2005, but did nothing to curb to fight the commission's power on the EU.He wanted power solely to sit on the throne, not to do anything with it.
>>17276596He liked Jünger
>>17277065I like PYR (although his many flaws) and it sounds right. It also echoes with what Zemmour (when he was still a journalist) said about him, he wrote a book on the subject: "l'homme qui ne s'aimait pas".
>MachiavelianLike almost every politician in Italy and France
>>17277065Maybe he was just lazy lol, being a great man takes energy>he refused to join the Iraq war, but let the americans destroy the middle east.What could he realistically do in 2003? US Hegemony was undisputed, this is back when China was still poorer than Germany's national GDP and Russia was a joke too, nobody had anything to stand up to Dubya Bush
>>17276839>Chirac was far from being a dumbass. Putin considered him one of the greatest man he ever met. Putin also admired George W. Bush.
>>17276596French anon here.This guy is burning in Hell.His son was a known pedophile btw.
>>17279472Doesn’t matter.
>>17279110He gave up the French protection of lebanon, which is a crime against both the middle easters and every single country that would ever want to engage in diplomacy in the Region.
>>17280017Oh no, won't someone think of the arabs in denial bombing the proud arabs
>>17280027you don't get geopolitics don't you ?
>>17280034The geopolitics of...backing a christian (slight) majority in a minor middle eastern country?
>>17280036>"I sure do not see what pivotal role does lebanon have for the stability of the region"
>>17280042Lebanon's fucked up ethno-sectarian situation only exacerbates the region's instability >*hacks palestinian refugees to death in the warm glow of israeli military searchlights*
>>17280042lebanon doesn't need to be stable. it needs to EXIST. i don't think you realize how invaluable a multi confessional state with a actual coastline is in a region that was filled ethno-cultural tensions buried by authoritarian regimes. It's a fantastic diplomatic platform for anyone to engage in trade deals in the middle east, because it can engage in diplomacy with pretty much everyone.But with the French protection gone, what's stopping syria or Israel to launch a full sace invasion beside their own economies ?
>>17279472>His son was a known pedophile btw.I thought French people were okay with that sort of thing though?>>17280017Lmao wtf did "French protection" exactly entail? Israel already invaded Lebanon in 1982 and France couldn't do shit to stop it
>>17280045Tbf the thought of a Christian Nationalist militia massacring predominantly Muslim refugees probably tickles something in the subconscious of every right-wing Frenchman
>>17276596What's with frog obsession of creating christian ethnostate in the region? It's basically what Lebanon was and still is to some degreeIs it crusader brainrot?
>>17280060>But with the French protection gone, what's stopping syria or Israel to launch a full sace invasion beside their own economies ?nigga didn't they already literally invade Lebanon like 50 years ago
>>17276687>>>in order of preference : Jacques Delors,no wonder, those piece of shit leftists created the EU we have now. it's pure evil.
>>17280441>I thought French people were okay with that sort of thing though?Degenerate parisians and french people are two very different things.
>>17280462Explain what is "pure evil" about Europeans cooperating and pooling resources together so that they can negotiate on equal terms with the USA and China.
>>17276708It's ugly as sin, so I don't blame them for being testy.>>17276710Everyone involved in this should be hanged from the neck until they are dead.>>17281013It's a nice idea in theory. In practice, what happens is that whenever a new innovation (economic or technological) emerges, the European Union first regulates it to death so European companies can't get in on it, then quietly drops much of that regulation when American companies threaten to withdraw from the European Union. The European Union's tendency to overregulate is why there is no European equivalent to Apple, Alphabet/Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD or Amazon. Europe is a sclerotic continent now; in 2008 the Eurozone had a total GDP roughly equivalent to the United States, but in 2024 the United States has a total GDP that's about a third higher, nearly all of it the result of innovative new companies that Europe simply lacks.
>>17279472>his sonnephew>>17280462As Mitterand used to say: "Nationalism is war" Anon.>>17281445It's debatable on esthetics for the Pyramids, but the Columns are indeed disgusting, I posted those to give an idea of the shift in artistic taste of the elites during Mitterand's regime.
