Wednesday 23 February 2022

I did not marry you under the regime of the Inquisition

Mitterrand was more than difficult as a husband: he was often impossible. He demanded absolute freedom and found the slightest constraint impossible. Not long after the wedding, [Danielle] asked him brightly, when he came home one evening, 'How did your day go, darling?' The reply drew blood: 'I did not marry you under the regime of the Inquisition.'

P. Short, Mitterrand: a study in ambiguity (2013)115

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