Danielle Mitterrand (born Danielle Émilienne Isabelle Gouze 29 October 1924 in Verdun) is the widow of François Mitterrand and president of the foundation France Libertés Fondation Danielle Mitterrand.
When she was seventeen years old, her family (her parents were professors) aided the French Resistance and helped lodge men of the Maquis (French Resistance) , and she became a liaison officer in the Resistance. She met François Mitterrand there, whom she married after the liberation three years later, on 28 October 1944.
She founded her foundation in 1986 with the fusion of three smaller associations started in 1981.
Danielle Mitterrand has three sons: Pascal (who died in childhood), Jean-Christophe and Gilbert Mitterrand.
Mrs. Mitterrand is very critical with respect to Turkey, opposing its accession to the European Union. She has voiced her views in favour of the Sahrawi, Subcomandante Marcos, the Tibetan and Kurdish people, among others. She considers herself as a close friend of the Kurdish people and visited the town of Halabja which suffered a Chemical massacre by the Iraqi army without fearing an assassination then.
In 1996 she was one of the winners of the North-South Prize.
(lire moins)Danielle Mitterrand (born Danielle Émilienne Isabelle Gouze 29 October 1924 in Verdun) is the widow of François Mitterrand and president of the foundation France Libertés Fondation Danielle Mitterrand.
When she was seventeen years old, her family (her parents were professors) aided the French Resistance and helped lodge men of the Maquis (French Resistance) , and she became a liaison officer in the Resistance. She met François Mitterrand there, whom she married after the liberation three years...
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