1. Mr Mitterrand, meanwhile, is lying low.

2. M Mitterrand, in short, has run out of steam.

3. There was speculation during the campaign that 75-year-old Mitterrand might resign before the end of his presidential term.

4. Mitterrand had ambiguous relations with money, the power of which he regularly lambasted.

5. Mitterrand and Lecanuet portrayed the General's refusal to campaign as contempt for the democratic process.

6. Although Mitterrand escaped personally unscathed, his party paid a heavy price.

7. Mitterrand suggested extending Bush's measures to chemical and biological as well as conventional weapons and applying the plan globally.

8. Mitterrand made a decisive U-turn in 1983 and cut government spending.

9. The Socialist project of the Mitterrand government may be dead, but its cultural entrepreneurship continues to enjoy wide popular support.

10. The Mitterrand Government also announced their plans for worldwide disarmament initiatives covering nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

11. Mitterrand made clear his desire to see new treaties on political and monetary union concluded before the end of the year.

12. More than a witness to Mitterrand, in many respects, the event was a mirror of the witnesses's preoccupations.

13. He signed a petition you know against Mitterrand and Vichy. Real shame our movie never got past first base.

14. From that low point, Mitterrand started his long climb to power.

15. Mr Mitterrand, who had suffered from prostate cancer, spent his last days in his study near the Eiffel Tower.

16. His second book on Mitterrand is filled with revealing anecdotes and interviews.

17. But while Mr Mitterrand won praise and respect abroad, he often drew sharp criticism at home, especially from conservative commentators.

18. In 1992, Mr Mitterrand imposed a moratorium on the explosions and urged other nuclear powers to follow suit.

19. In the end President Mitterrand chose his friend Pierre Berge, head of a fashion house, to sort out the mess.

20. Mitterrand, 75, who left a Paris hospital yesterday, will resume his duties soon.

21. Mitterrand had been suffering from prostate cancer for several years, for which he underwent surgery twice.

22. Mitterrand, a Socialist, had been ill with prostate cancer for several years.

23. Next week he'll be in Florida for consultations with President Mitterrand.

24. A more serious breach of ethics came with the publication of a picture of Mitterrand on his deathbed.

25. Giscard's position has been weakened by his refusal to declare his candidacy and the animosity between him and Mitterrand.

26. Even some Right-wing opposition politicians reckoned it was the best Mr Mitterrand could have done in the circumstances.

27. Mr Kohl has denied the allegations of an illegal Mitterrand connection.

28. Despite the policy agreements, the infighting over the succession to both Mitterrand and Mauroy had not at that point been resolved.

28. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

29. Although from different ends of the political spectrum, Mr Kohl and Mitterrand enjoyed a long-standing and close personal friendship.

30. Voters would remember that austerity and unemployment had begun during the regime of Francois Mitterrand.

1. Next week he'll be in Florida for consultations with President Mitterrand.

31. In September 1981 the newly elected President Mitterrand came to London.

32. This week President Mitterrand renewed the call for an early conference.

33. Francois Mitterrand may have hidden a secret daughter.

34. Socialist candidate Francois Mitterrand is elected president.

35. His slogan as a Socialist in the shadow of the Mitterrand years was the freedom to invent!

36. Under Mitterrand, it was the wealth tax. Under Mr Jospin, it was Ms Aubry's 35-hour working week.

37. French President Francois Mitterrand She was always an attractive woman.

38. The French press accused the government of President Francois Mitterrand of cutting a deal with Iran.http://

39. Danielle Mitterrand, wife of longtime leader Francois Mitterrand, was a well-known activist.

40. Paulin, who died in Montpellier in southeast France, was chosen by two former French presidents, Georges Pompidou and Francois Mitterrand, to furnish the presidential palace.

41. But she had to measure up against Gorbachev, Mitterrand and Reagan and she did.

42. President Mitterrand arrived in Hanoi yesterday to bury old colonial and cold war enmities.

43. Here was President Mitterrand, the great goat of French politics, paying her, the grocer's daughter(), the greatest of compliments.

44. Instead of supporting Mr. Giscard d'Estaing against Mr. Mitterrand, Mr. Chirac ran as well.

45. President Mitterrand, 75, has been given a clean bill of health by doctors in Paris.

46. He got to know Fran?ois Mitterrand, the former Socialist president, and befriended Princess Caroline of Monaco, Kate Moss and Mick Jagger, who were impressed with his original style of photography.

47. Mitterrand was seventy-seven and in ill health, but he was eager to show off France's latest masterpiece.

48. They last tasted victory when Francois Mitterrand eased his way into the Elysee Palace.

49. Francois Mitterrand said she had "the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe".

50. He cast himself in the mould of his mentor Francois Mitterrand.

51. The so-called Mitterrand Doctrine gave asylum to all Italian militants who renounced the armed struggle.

52. Mazarine Marie Pingeot-Mitterrand, the illegitimate daughter of late President of France Mitterrand, became a prominent French socialist and novelist (see photo), UK media reported.

53. Elf's former boss also says he told Mr Mitterrand that such secret payments could lead to abuse.