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Posted on Sat, Feb. 23, 2008 10:15 PM
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In France, first couple are a domestic affair all their own
Well, have you seen photographs of the lady in question? Distracting indeed!
The latest brouhaha has to do with the publication by a weekly magazine of a text message allegedly sent by Sarkozy to his previous wife, suggesting that if she cared to come back he would call off his then-impending marriage to Ms. Bruni.
The president has denounced the story as a fiction, and is suing. The magazine stands by its report. For her part, France’s new first lady seems unperturbed. She is, after all, no stranger to titillating press.
Various published accounts have linked her romantically with such public figures as Mick Jagger, Donald Trump and a former French prime minister, among others.
Quite unabashedly, she admits being bored with the same old same old.
“I want to reassure the French,” she told L’Express in an interview shortly after the February wedding. “I am 40, I am normal.”
Normal, perhaps, for France.
“I’m monogamous from time to time,” she has declared. “But I prefer polygamy and polyandry” — the latter defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as having two or more husbands simultaneously.
It’s possible that she misspoke herself. For she also has insisted that the marriage to Sarkozy, her first, would be her last, saying, “I am his wife until death.”
One of the more charming aspects of the Latin nature — he a Gallic lover, she Italian by birth — is this willingness to conduct their affairs of the heart in print, and in the full glare of the public eye.
In not quite two months since they were photographed arriving on Christmas Day for a vacation together in Egypt, the president and the model have made more news than usually comes out of France in a year.
Much of the conversation has concerned the velocity with which events proceeded — from Sarkozy’s October divorce, to that Middle Eastern holiday in December, to their nuptials in the Elysee Palace on Feb. 2.
Far too quick, critics have complained. But the forthright Ms. Bruni denies it.
“Between Nicolas and me,” she says, “it wasn’t fast. It was immediate.”
Vive la difference!
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