Through a close reading of a mass of private documents, Ms Harris subtly draws the complex, and contradictory, human behaviour behind the public affair.

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Mitterrand, the longest-serving leader of the Fifth Republic, was buried in the family tomb at Jarnac in southwestern France after a private mass.

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Last April, the New York Times reported, a new law was passed that requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to lift the ban on mass advertising of private offerings.

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