French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech at the French Tech Hub in San Francisco, on February 12, 2014. Last week marked the first state visit to the United States by a French president in 22 years. In addition to Washington, D.C., François Hollande visited the Silicon Valley. The last time a French head of state did so was in 1984, when François Mitterand met an ambitious eccentric named Steve Jobs.