Foreign and Commonwealth Office Private Office files
France: Palliser letter to UK Ambassador Paris ("President Mitterrand's health") ["tentative indications of ill health"; Attali's "unexpected display of medical openness"] [declassified Jul 2022]
| Document type: | Declassified documents |
|---|---|
| Source: | FCO73/1368 |
| Editorial comments: | Read other documents selected from the same file. Supporting documents follow. 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: | 1p |
| Themes: | British relations with France, Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), European Union (general) |
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