François Hollande

François Hollande is one of those political figures who you kind of have to respect even if his presidency left you scratching your head. He came up through the French Socialist Party the hard way — First Secretary for over a decade, mayor, regional council president — and then actually won the Élysée in 2012, which felt like a genuine upset against Sarkozy's incumbent machine. But his five years as President were rough: unemployment stayed stubbornly high, his approval ratings cratered to near-historic lows, and he made the almost unprecedented call not to even seek a second term. Still, the man has a certain quiet durability — he kept showing up in French political life long after most people would've retreated to write memoirs, and that takes a kind of thick-skinned commitment you don't always see.

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Name (English)

François Hollande

Name (Japanese)

フランソワ・オランド

Reading

ふらんそわ・おらんど

Born

August 12, 1954 (age 72)

Origin

Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France

Height

173 cm

Occupation

magistrate / lawyer / official / statesperson / politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Horse

University

Panthéon-Assas University Paris

Awards & achievements

• 2012 Order of the White Eagle (Third Polish Republic)
• 2012 Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
• 2012 Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit
• 2012 Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
• 2013 Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize
• 2014 Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec
• Order of Glory
• Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/fhollande/
• Xhttps://x.com/fhollande
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Hollande
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q157

Tags

• Seine-Maritime
• magistrate
• lawyer
• official

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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