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Byline: Elisabeth Franck-dumas
Tucked away in a quiet courtyard of Paris's busy Eleventh Arrondissement, all but masked by a profusion of potted plants, lies the door to the apartment of Mazarine Pingeot, the once-hidden illegitimate daughter of the late French president Francois Mitterrand.
A striking woman of 30 who bears an uncanny resemblance to the young Mitterrand, Pingeot spent her childhood shrouded in anonymity, a state secret of a girl who used to cross out the father's profession box in back-to-school questionnaires. Shielded from the public eye, she and her mother formed Mitterrand's "other family," whose existence was revealed to the French ...