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Francois Hollande takes over as president of France

Pomp, meetings central to big day of Socialist leader

By Steven Erlanger

 |  New York Times  

  May 16, 2012

In a dignified ceremony in a red and gold hall in the Elysee Palace, Francois Hollande, 57, was inaugurated Tuesday as president of France, the first Socialist to hold the office since Francois Mitterrand. Later, after naming Jean-Marc Ayrault, 62, as his prime minister, Hollande boarded a state aircraft bound for Berlin for his first official meeting with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel.

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