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the president's daughter; A memoir by Mitterrand's secret child is causing a sensation in France.(Book Review)

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| July 01, 2005 | Franck-Dumas, Elisabeth | COPYRIGHT 2005 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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