“For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.”

—  François Mitterrand

L’Abeille et l’architecte [The Bee and the Architect] (1980)

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21st President of the French Republic 1916–1996

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