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journalists did not leak this fact,
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but it was quite obvious that
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fran?ois Mitterrand was ill.
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And toward the end of his life
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two facts about his life came out.
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The first is that he had a very old daughter from a liaison
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that had nothing to do with his wife
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that's fairly common in political
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France--but the second, and for our purposes much more
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important, was that he had himself been a collaborator;
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this was the dark secret and he poured
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out his heart. He said he had something