FRANCOIS MITTERAND (1916-1996) Two autographed photographs, one signed ‘François Mitterrand’ dedicated ‘Pour Gérard Leman’

1) Photograph of President Mitterrand, in the library of the Elysée Palace, by Gisèle Freund. with autograph dedication «Pour Gérard Leman» signed «François Mitterrand», in the lower margin. «Imprimerie du Jaguar Paris-Photo Gisèle Freund-La Documentation Française». Good condition. 24 x 18 cm 2) Photograph representing F. Mitterrand (Paris, 1965) walking with his wife Danielle and their youngest son, Gilbert. Inscribed on the reverse. Good condition. 12.7 x 17.5 cm François Mitterrand. French statesman, President of the Republic from 1981 to 1995, his two septenniums were marked by a series of social measures, the extension and strengthening of local freedoms and freedom of expression, the modernization of the penal code, the abolition of the death penalty, and the construction of prestigious buildings: the Grand Louvre, the new French National Library, the Bastille opera house, and the Great Arch of La Défense. One of the major men of the Fifth Republic Gisèle Freund (1908-2000) Sociologist, German photographer, naturalized French. She produced portraits of numerous writers and artists and photographic reports in Europe, Mexico and South America. In France, she was awarded the Grand Prix National des Arts pour la Photographie by the Ministry of Culture in 1980, and in 1981 she took the official portrait of President François Mitterrand.