François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was a French politician and statesman who served as President of France from...

library of France, located in Paris on two main sites, Richelieu and François-Mitterrand. It is the national repository of all that is published in France...

RER lines designated. Auber Avenue Foch Avenue Henri Martin Avenue du Président Kennedy Bibliothèque François Mitterrand Boulainvilliers Champ de Mars–Tour...

landmark of Paris. The Grand Louvre project was announced in 1981 by François Mitterrand, the President of France. In 1983 the Chinese-American architect...

which only the Salle à Manger Paulin survives. Socialist President François Mitterrand, who governed from 1981 to 1995, is said to have seldom used its...

Louvre to Arc de Triomphe, and was one of the Grands Projets of François Mitterrand. The distance from La Grande Arche to Arc de Triomphe is 4 km (2+1⁄2...

celebrated Mass on the parvis of the cathedral. The Requiem Mass of François Mitterrand was held at the cathedral, as with past French heads of state, on...

The museum officially opened in December 1986 by then-president François Mitterrand. At any time about 3,000 art pieces are on display within Musée d'Orsay...

Francis I of France (1494-1547) Quai François-Mitterrand - François Mitterrand (1915-1996), President of France Avenue du Général-Lemonnier - Ḗmile Lemonnier...

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing began the Musée d'Orsay (1986); President François Mitterrand had the Opéra Bastille built (1985–1989), the new site of the Bibliothèque...

arrondissement of Paris, France. Inaugurated in 1989 as part of President François Mitterrand's Grands Travaux, it became the main facility of the Paris National...

Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France region, northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. Aubervilliers is one of three communes in the Plaine Saint-Denis...

la Cité Île aux Cygnes Île Saint-Louis Waterways of Paris Canals in Paris Canal de l'Ourcq Canal Saint-Denis Canal Saint-Martin Rivers in Paris Bièvre...

to build the Grande Arche was initiated by the French president François Mitterrand, who wanted a 20th-century version of the Arc de Triomphe. The design...

by several notable artists, including Maurice Denis. The Église Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot, at 31 avenue Marceau (16th), was designed by Émile Bois (1932–38)...

passes under the Paris-Nord station rail line and then follows Avenue François-Mitterrand. It passes under the Landy tunnel, then runs alongside La Plaine...

Paris National Opera, was inaugurated in 1989 as part of President François Mitterrand's "Grands Travaux". Designed by Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott, it...

Porte d'Ivry Porte de Choisy Quai de la Gare Saint-Marcel Tolbiac Paris RER stations Bibliothèque François Mitterrand SNCF stations Gare d'Austerlitz...

type in the world, so that it will work again." In 1981, President François Mitterrand of France definitively renounced possession of the second obelisk...

the original section of the line from Madeleine to Bibliothèque François Mitterrand. On 7 and 8 March 2009 the line 1 platforms were restored during...

government architect Olivier Lahalle. In 1981, French President François Mitterrand proposed, as one of his Grands Projets, the Grand Louvre plan to...

association with Denis Laming architects Haussmann–Saint-Lazare: new station for RER E Magenta: new station for RER E Bibliothèque François Mitterrand: new interchange...

1994, as part of the Grand Louvre project launched by President François Mitterrand, the Belgian landscape architect Jacques Wirtz remade the garden...

of the modern plaza. It was not until the 1980s, under president François Mitterrand, that a project was initiated, with a modern 20th century version...

and 1995, during the terms of President François Mitterrand and Culture Minister Jack Lang, and of Mitterrand's bitter political rival, Paris Mayor Jacques...

opening three years later by Mayor Jean Tiberi. Sponsored by President François Mitterrand, the project covered 14 hectares (34.6 acres). Composed of three...

allows a direct traffic flow from Annemasse to Nantes or Bordeaux The François Mitterrand Bridge is the second work of construction connecting Mâcon to the...

with the technology at that time. On 26 September 1981 President François Mitterrand formally returned the title of the second obelisk to Egypt. The obelisk...

competition in 1982–83 for the park as part of the Grands Projets of François Mitterrand, and sought the opinions of the deconstructionist philosopher Jacques...

interest leaving a legacy of new museums and buildings: President François Mitterrand had the most ambitious program of any President since Napoleon III...