Konstantinos Karamanlis. Paris, 1965.

 Konstantinos Karamanlis. with his wife Amalia Megapanou, at the Cathredale Saint Stephane, 25th of March 1965.

In the 1963 election the National Radical Union, under his leadership, was defeated by the Center Union under George Papandreou. Disappointed with the result, Karamanlis fled Greece under the name Triantafyllides. He spent the next 11 years in self-imposed exile in Paris, France

All photographs by Simos Tsapnidis