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Vive La France!
When this blog started in October, Anne Applebaum wrote of how the Nicolas and Cecilia Sarkozy, France's president and first lady, could be a model for American political couples. She had her own life, did not help him campaign, and no one in France seemed to care. Well, just as our presidential campaign has been full of surprises, so too has the love life of the French president. According to the Daily Mail, Sarkozy's girlfriend of two months, former model Carla Bruni, is pregnant by him! You must read this fabulously juicy story, including the account of Sarko's near breakdown when Cecilia divorced him. But that was all so 2007, and now he's recovered and in love. My favorite story is about how Carla fell for the son of one of her lovers (others have included Mick Jagger and Donald Trump), who left his wife (who wrote a book about it), and had an out-of-wedlock child with the guy. Her nickname is "The Maneater." Sarko's romance has caused some protocol difficulties as he's traveled the world with her, since foreign governments have not known how to treat a president and his girlfriend. All that should be resolved soon, as apparently he is going to marry her. This is Jerry Springer with foreign accents and designer clothes!
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