Death of Frédéric Mitterrand: the memories of the French

Frédéric Mitterrand died on Thursday March 21, at the age of 76. He had a unique phrasing, his own way of greeting viewers with enthusiasm. And it is this voice that immediately comes to the minds of the French people met on Friday morning by France Télévisions. “When we heard him speak, we recognized him immediately”, recalls a passerby. In the 1980s and 1990s, Frédéric Mitterrand presented several programs on cinema, literature but also crowned heads.

“Someone curious”

A Frenchman mentions “someone curious, a little caustic, a little offbeat, who had a perception of things that was unique”. “For me, he was a man of culture. He was someone refined, who had a lot of intellectual curiosity”, says another. Cinema was Frédéric Mitterrand’s great passion. The man of culture that he was, became Minister of Culture in 2009. In his life, Frédéric Mitterrand was also a writer, editor, director of films and documentaries.