François Le Mao
François Le Mao is an actor, known for L'outsider (2016), Nox (2018) and À la recherche du temps perdu (2011).
François Legrand
François Legrand is known for Franklin (2024).
François Leterrier
Though François Leterrier's career evolved from assistant director to writer and director, he left an important mark in cinema with an acting role as the leading man in Robert Bresson's immortal classic Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956), as Fontaine, the man who skillfully tries several ways and attempts to escape from prison during World War II. He only acted once more in Resnais' Stavisky... (1974) in the role of poet André Malraux. After his work for Bresson, he was second assistant director in two films directed by Louis Malle: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958) and Les amants (1958), then assistant director in four other films. His directorial debut was in _Les mauvais coups (1961), a film starring Simone Signoret. In the following 30 years, Leterrier directed 20 projects in between theatrical films, TV movies and series, which include Un roi sans divertissement (1963), La chasse royale (1969), the final film of the Emmanuelle franchise in the 1970's Goodbye Emmanuelle (1977), _Rat Race (1980)_ and _Slices of Life (1985)_. He is the father of director Louis Leterrier, famous for directing two films of The Transporter franchise. He passed away on 3 December, 2020.
François Levantal
François Levantal was born on 10 October 1960 in Paris, France. He is an actor, known for La haine (1995), A Very Long Engagement (2004) and Crimson Rivers (2000).
François Létourneau
François Létourneau was born in 1974 in Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Cheech (2006), Série Noire (2014) and Les invincibles (2009).
François Marret
François Marret is a director and actor, known for Voyage avec un âne dans les Cévennes (2015).
François Marthouret
François Marthouret was born on September 12, 1943 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Port-au-Prince, dimanche 4 janvier (2015), Marquis (1989) and Mac Orlan (2009).
François Mazoue
François Mazoue is an actor, known for Bodybuilder (2014).
François Mimet
François Mimet was born in 1950 in Paris, France. He is an assistant director and director, known for La joven y la tentación (1986), Madame Claude 2 (1981) and Aimez-vous les uns les autres... mais pas trop (1972).
François Mitterrand
François Mitterrand was born in Jarnac on October 26, 1916. He was finishing his studies in Paris when he was called by the French army in September 1939. He was 3 times mentioned, then injured and imprisoned but he escaped in December 1941 during his transfer to another war camp. Back to France, he joined the Résistance where he had an important role. After the war, in November 1946, he was elected deputy in the Nièvre and had several ministerial responsibilities during the 10 first years of the Fourth Republic. He was Minister of the French Overseas Departments, which allowed him to show his will of decolonization, to calm different tensions in the colonies and to create personal and lasting relationships with African leaders; then he retired from this post in 1953 before becoming Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1954-1955 and Minister of Justice in 1956. In 1958, he criticized the Fifth Republic and the way Charles de Gaulle became president and lost his deputy seat, which he got again in 1962 after a short time at the Senate. Then he became mayor of Château-Chinon in 1959 and president of the General Council of the Nièvre in 1964. When the constitution was modified in 1962, it said that French people would directly elect the President of the Republic; thus Mitterrand was the only left-side candidate in 1965 and was qualified for the second round where he had 45% against Charles de Gaulle. The next presidential elections (in 1969) were a disaster for the left-side parties (with Georges Pompidou's victory) but after the reform of the Socialist Party in Epinay in 1971, Mitterrand became definitely the candidate of the "Left Union" and after having failed again (but shortly) in 1974 against Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, he was elected in 1981 then again in 1988. His 14-years-long presidency mainly allowed him to take a lot of social measures that were expected by the workers, but also to abolish the death penalty, to modernize the penal code, to extend and enforce the freedom of speech, etc... He was also careful of the involvement of France in big international problems (especially in the name of peace), and comfimed the place of France within the European Union. He also allowed several "Big Projects" to be developed as the Pyramid of the Louvre, the Arche de la Défense and the National Library (which later took his name), and he also became one of the best political writer of the 20th century. Then he died from cancer, less than one year after having finished his second presidency, at the age of 79.
