In all freedom, Danielle Mitterrand

1939-1940: It was the Phoney War...I was fourteen years old. My heart was pounding: "And I will be at Huez. Happy if you wish it, unhappy if it pleases you." My heart overturned, I read and re-read this message. In that year, the world rumbled and faltered...And I, I was that young girl in bloom and I thought I was in love! This is the beginning of Danielle Mitterrand's account of her life: her adolescent emotions very quickly swept away by the turmoil of war, her commitment alongside her parents in the maquis, her meeting with a fascinating man, François Mitterrand, alias Morland for the Resistance, their wildly accelerated marriage in the joy of the Liberation... Danielle Mitterrand recounts her journey as a young wife, mother, then First Lady of France - a woman's destiny marked by her attachment to an exceptional politician, by shared dreams, ideals, victories and setbacks - her encounters with the great witnesses and actors of History in recent decades. She also fully dedicates herself to her other struggle, as president of the France-Libertés foundation, in the humanitarian field and wherever human rights are threatened, alongside the Kurds, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela or Fidel Castro, castigating the policies of any government if her conscience as a free woman dictates it. An extraordinary destiny and memory.