After a legislative election during his first term, he was forced into cohabitation with RPR leader Jacques Chirac.
This man once claimed to have dodged an assassin's bullet by diving over a fence, eliciting accusations that he was lying in what is called the Observatory Affair. His loss of a legislative seat in 1958 began a period referred to as the "desert crossing." In another office, he appointed his country's first female prime minister, Edith Cresson. This leader abolished the death penalty with his first prime minister, Pierre Mauroy. After a legislative election during his first term, he was forced into cohabitation with RPR leader Jacques Chirac. For 10 points, name this Socialist and longest-serving president of France.
This man once claimed to have dodged an assassin's bullet by diving over a fence, eliciting accusations that he was lying in what is called the Observatory Affair.
Francois Maurice-Marie Mitterrand