François Gerard Georges Nicolas Hollande is a statesman, an ambitious politician and President of France. He held a high position from 2012 to 2017. François Hollande began to engage in political activity during his student years. It was during this time that he became a member of the French Socialist Party and was quickly noticed by party leaders.
Biography facts
President François Hollande was born on August 12, 1954 in Rouen, France. His parents were physician Georges Hollande and Nicole Tribert, who worked as a social worker.
In 1968 the family moved to Paris, where François continued his schooling at a prestigious lyceum. After graduation, the future president entered the Paris Institute for Political Studies. François Hollande is also a graduate of the HEC Paris Business School. He graduated from the French National School of Management (ENA) in 1980.
Career in politics
Hollande joined the Socialist Party in 1979. After completing his studies at ENA, he became an auditor at the French court. During this period he was also a lecturer at the Paris Institute for Political Studies. In 1981, after the election of François Mitterrand to the post of President of the French Republic, François Hollande became a special adviser to the president. During the parliamentary elections in June 1981, he ran for membership in the National Assembly in the department of Corrèze.
In 1983 he was appointed head of the cabinet of Max Gallo, and then of Roland Dumas under the government of Pierre Maurois. In 1984, he became an advisory judge at the Court of Accounts. In the parliamentary elections of 1988, after the election of François Mitterrand, he was elected deputy in the first electoral district of the department of Corrèze.
In 1988-1991, Hollande worked as a professor of economics at the Paris Institute for Political Studies. He became National Secretary of the Socialist Party in charge of economic affairs in November 1994, and was appointed in 1995 as Press Secretary of the Socialist Party. In 1997, after the victory of the leftist coalition, François Hollande returned to his seat in the National Assembly of the Department of Corrèze and became the first secretary of the Socialist Party.
For seven years (from 2001 to 2008) Hollande served as mayor of the city of Tulle. After that, the politician was elected president of the Correze department, while he left the post of first secretary of the Socialist Party.
In May 2012, François Hollande became the 7th President of the Fifth Republic of France. The presidency of the politician was ambiguous. The media reported that he became the country's most unpopular leader. He came up with an initiative to introduce a 75% tax on citizens whose income exceeds 1 million euros per year, approved a draft law on the legalization of same-sex marriage, by order of the president, intervention began in Mali and the Central African Republic, and so on.
Personal life
Several scandalous stories are associated with the name of François Hollande. The president's hobbies are legendary.
For more than 30 years, his common-law wife was Segolene Royal. Four children were born in the marriage. But despite the long years of marriage, the couple broke up after his wife caught Hollande of treason. The next wife was Paris Match journalist Valerie Trieveiler. Their relationship lasted from 2007 to 2014. After that, information appeared in the media that the actress Julie Gaye was the politician's new passion.
