His brothers recalled a different Francois [Mitterrand], who slid down banisters; fidgeted so much in church that he caused a scandal by falling off his chair; and stubbornly held his finger a millimetre away from an object he had been forbidden to touch, insisting he was not disobedient and was doing nothing wrong.
P. Short, Mitterrand: a study in ambiguity (2013), 18
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