STEPHANE DE SACUTIN / AFP
During the funeral of the former minister in Paris on Tuesday, the eyes were directed to his three sons, who are little known to the general public.
Noble families, political figures, cultural and anonymous figures made the journey to pay their last respects to Frédéric Mitterrand this Tuesday, March 26, at the Church of St. Thomas d’Aquin in Paris. In the front rows were the former minister’s family: brothers Olivier and Jean-Gabriel, his three children Mathieu, Said and Jihed, who came with his honors and academic sword, as well as his cousin Mazarin Pinjot, daughter. long hidden from François Mitterrand.
“We lived your wounds, your sorrows, this sadness and this feeling of not being understood. was which was unbearable for you,” his three children said excitedly, according to The Figaro . “We still had so much to tell you.”
Gay and single dad
Openly homosexual Frédéric Mitterrand had a natural son in 1981, Mathieu, whom he raised as a single father. “I raised him alone, starting from the age of 4, because his mother used drugs,” said the former director of the French Academy in Rome. Gala In 2017, published eight years later in his autobiographical novel titled Bad life. “I did my best. But he suffered, I’m afraid. When he was 10 years old, I lived with a friend and felt that it might be a difficult situation for him. For this reason, I stopped living together with a man.”
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Then Francois Mitterrand’s nephew adopted two sons, Jihed and Said, in Hamamet, Tunisia. From their father, the two boys inherited the name Miteran, even if they kept their first surnames: Qasmi, Said and Gasmi, Jihed, we still learn in the columns. Gala.
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However, Mathieu, Jihed and Said were able to pay their last respects this Tuesday alongside figures from the Parisian elite. A group of former Ministers of Culture – Jack Lang, Jacques Toubon, Renaud Donadier de Vabre, Franck Riester, Roseline Bachelet and Rima Abdul Malak – rubbed shoulders with Rachida Dati and former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy for the latest title. who appointed Frédéric Mitterrand to the rue Valois. On the other hand, apart from Ariel Dombasle, there were few actresses he loved so much. Also in the audience were Maria Pia of Savoy, Princess of Bourbon-Parma, Emmanuel-Philibert of Savoy, Prince Laurent of Belgium and Chantal d’Orléans. A funeral that couldn’t have been more ordinary.
Source: Le Figaro
