his presidential flag. President François Mitterrand received from King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden a coat of arms linked to the reception of the Order of the Seraphim, which reproduces this symbol. Notes References Further reading Bell, David. François Mitterrand: A Political Biography (Polity, 2005). Bell, David S. "The Essence of Presidential Leadership in France: Pompidou, Giscard, Mitterrand, and Chirac as Coalition Builders." Politics & Policy 30#2 (2002): 372-396. Bell, David S. "François Mitterrand: the President as 'Political Artist'." in David S. Bell and John Gaffney, eds. The Presidents of the French Fifth Republic (2013): 136+ Bell, David. Presidential Power in Fifth Republic France (2000) pp 149–74. Cogan, Charles. "Mitterrand, France, and NATO: the European transition." Journal of Transatlantic Studies (2011) 9#3 pp: 257–267. Cole, Alistair. François Mitterrand: A Study in Political Leadership, London, Routledge, 1994, . Friend, Julius W. "François Mitterrand: All Sins Forgiven?." French Politics and Society (1996): 28–35. in JSTOR Friend, Julius Weis. Seven Years in France: François Mitterrand and the Unintended Revolution, 1981–1988 (Westview Press, 1989). Laughland, John. The Death of Politics: France Under Mitterrand (1994). Maclean, Mairi, ed. The Mitterrand Years: Legacy and Evaluation (1998), essays by experts. Ross, George. "Machiavelli Muddling Through: The Mitterrand Years and French Social Democracy." French Politics and Society (1995): 51–59. in JSTOR Ross, George, Stanley Hoffmann, and Sylvia Malzacher, eds The Mitterrand experiment: continuity and change in modern France (Oxford University Press, USA, 1987). Short, Philip. Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity, London, Bodley Head, 2014; published in the United States as A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand Wilsford, David, ed. Political Leaders of Contemporary Western Europe: A Biographical Dictionary (Greenwood, 1995) pp. 323–32 External links Louvre inauguration speech by Mitterrand François Mitterrand Institute French President Poll (01/2006) "Mitterrand's Legacy" (1996) in The Nation Source of quoted article |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1916 births 1996 deaths 20th-century presidents of France 20th-century Princes of Andorra People from Charente Politicians from Nouvelle-Aquitaine Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance politicians Convention of Republican Institutions politicians Chairmen of the Socialist Party (France) Former Roman Catholics French agnostics French interior ministers French Ministers of Justice French Ministers of Overseas France French Ministers of Veterans Affairs Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the