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France: FCO letter to No.10 (rumours about Mitterrand's health) [asks for MT's impressions from recent meetings with the President] [declassified 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/761 f7
Editorial comments:

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According to Philip Short's Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity (2013), pp358-61, the President was diagnosed with metastasised prostatic cancer in Nov 1981. The news was given to him on 16 Nov.

Read other documents speculating on President Mitterrand's health, 1981-82.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 5pp
Themes: British relations with France, Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), European Union (general)