Mitterrand Confidential
Episode 2
S1 • E2 Jan 5, 2026 52m
On November 3, 1994, François Mitterrand saw the existence of his second family made public by Paris Match at the very moment when he was embroiled in the Élysée wiretapping scandal. The president saw these new attacks as another episode in the war he had been waging against the right since the bitter humiliation of the real-fake attack on the Observatory in 1959. It was through his memories of meeting Anne Pingeot, who saved him from depression at a time when he had lost his parliamentary immunity, that the president found the strength to fight back.