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François Hollande

president of France
Also known as: François Gérard Georges Hollande
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François Hollande (born August 12, 1954, Rouen, France) is a French politician who was president of France (2012–17). He earlier served as first secretary of the Socialist Party (1997–2008). The son of a physician in France’s northwestern Haute-Normandie région, Hollande was educated at the elite École Nationale d’Administration, where his classmates included future prime minister Dominique de Villepin and future Socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal, who would also become Hollande’s longtime companion. In 1979, while...

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