François Hollande
Born
12 August 1954 (71)
Place of Birth
Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
Also known as
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande
Biography
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017. Prior to his presidency, he was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) from 1997 to 2008, Mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008, as well as President of the General Council of Corrèze from 2008 to 2012. Hollande also held the 1st constituency of Corrèze seat in the National Assembly twice, from 1988 to 1993 and again from 1997 until 2012. Born in Rouen and r...
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017. Prior to his presidency, he was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) from 1997 to 2008, Mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008, as well as President of the General Council of Corrèze from 2008 to 2012. Hollande also held the 1st constituency of Corrèze seat in the National Assembly twice, from 1988 to 1993 and again from 1997 until 2012. Born in Rouen and raised in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hollande began his political career as a special advisor to newly elected President François Mitterrand, before serving as a staffer for Max Gallo, the government's spokesman. He became a member of the National Assembly in 1988 and was elected First Secretary of the PS in 1997. Following the 2004 regional elections won by the PS, Hollande was cited as a potential presidential candidate, but he resigned as First Secretary and was immediately elected to replace Jean-Pierre Dupont as President of the General Council of Corrèze in 2008. In 2011, Hollande announced that he would be a candidate in the primary election to select the PS presidential nominee; he won the nomination against Martine Aubry, before he was elected to the presidency (becoming also, ex officio, Co-Prince of Andorra) on 6 May 2012 in the second round with 51.6% of the vote, defeating incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. During his tenure, Hollande legalized same-sex marriage by passing Bill no. 344, reformed labour laws and credit training programmes, signed a law restricting the cumul des mandats, and withdrew French forces in Afghanistan, in addition to concluding an EU directive on the protection of animals in laboratory research through a Franco-German contract. Hollande led the country through the January and November 2015 Paris attacks, as well as the 2016 Nice attack. He was a leading proponent of EU mandatory migrant quotas and NATO's 2011 military intervention in Libya. He also sent troops to Mali and the Central African Republic with the approval of the UN Security Council in order to stabilise those countries, two operations however largely seen as failures. He drew controversy among his left-wing electoral base for supporting the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. Under Hollande’s presidency, Paris hosted the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference and his efforts to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to the city were successful. However, with domestic troubles – in particular due to Islamic terrorism – over the course of his tenure, and unemployment rising to 10%, he faced spikes and downturns in approval rates, ultimately making him the most unpopular head of state under the Fifth Republic. On 1 December 2016, he announced he would not seek reelection in the 2017 presidential election, for which polls suggested his defeat in the first round. ... Source: Article "François Hollande" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography (40)
L'affaire Abdallah
2026
Je t'aime moi non plus - France-Maroc
2026
L'irréparable - 1995, le discours du Vel d'Hiv
2026
La vie d'après
2026
Terror. Fußball. Paris 2015 · Die Nationalmannschaft im Visier
2025
Die Nacht von Paris - Terror am Stade de France
2025
Sacrée Sécu
2025
« Moi, diplomate ! » - Le monde de François Hollande
2025
La banlieue, c’est le paradis
2025
Dissolution, histoire d'un séisme politique
2024
Le parcours d'un roi - Le Maroc de Mohammed VI
2024
The Darwinners
2024
Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge
2024
The Queen and the Prime Ministers
2024
Trois mille milliards : les secrets d'un État en faillite
2023
The Revenge of Bernadette Chirac
2023
Président : le prix à payer - Face à la rue
2023
Ukraine: the Road to War
2023
November
2022
Cent jours
2022
De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire
2022
Maastricht, 30 ans après
2022
The Baudis affair, the murderous rumor
2021
10 mai 1981 : Changer la vie ?
2021
L'ENA - Pourquoi tant de haine ?
2021
Anelka: Misunderstood
2020
Entretien politique : Histoire et mode d'emploi
2020
Laboratory Greece
2019
Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... Les Présidents et les Français
2019
Revealing Ukraine
2019
Mon Chirac
2019
L'Adieu à Solférino
2019
La vengeance de Poutine
2018
François Hollande, le mal-aimé
2017
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017
Moi, candidat
2017
The Blues: Another Story of France
2016
Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New World
2016
King of Morocco, the secret reign
2016
Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne
2016