Posted on 12/17/2007 10:35:25 PM PST by Cincinna
French newspapers on Monday splashed photos of President Nicolas Sarkozy with singer and former supermodel Carla Bruni, fuelling speculation of romance just two months after the president's divorce. Sarkozy, 53, and Bruni, 39, were snapped together at the Disneyland theme park near Paris on Saturday. They made little apparent attempt to hide the fact that they were there together, though none of the photos showed them any closer than shoulder-to-shoulder.
The Elysee Palace would not comment to AFP on the pictures. But L'Express magazine editor Christophe Barbier told French television that Bruni -- whose past boyfriends include rock stars Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton -- had confirmed to him that she was romantically involved with Sarkozy.
"We must now wait and see how far the president will go in presenting Carla Bruni officially" as his companion, Barbier told LCI television.
"Carla Bruni and Sarkozy are out in the open," wrote the popular Le Parisien newspaper on its front page that featured one of the photos of the couple.
Even the right wing newspaper Le Figaro ran a photograph of Bruni under the headline "Carla Bruni, the president's companion".
Le Figaro said "the presence of Sarkozy and Carla Bruni in such a public place suggests that they do not intend to specifically hide themselves."
The leftwing Liberation wrote that the couple had brought their "fairy tale" romance to Disneyland.
L'Express said about 10 photographers were present at the park to take the pictures and that the couple seemed "very much at ease" with the attention paid to them.
Bruni, who will be 40 on Sunday, was born in Italy and was the heiress to a tyre manufacturing fortune. She was a top fashion model before turning to pop music. She was married to philosophy professor, Raphael Enthoven, and the couple had one daughter.
Sarkozy, 53, has two sons from his first marriage and one son from his 11-year marriage to Cecilia, which ended in a much publicised divorce in October.
Three French magazines are to publish photos of the Disneyland outing this week, according to the website of L'Express magazine.
The photos are to be published this week in Closer, Paris Match and Point de Vue, which wrote "Carla Bruni: the president's queen of hearts."
French politicians declined to be drawn into the whirlwind of commentary on the the president's new friend. Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande, who has just gone through a highly public separation from leftwing presidential candidate Segolene Royale, said the couple had a right to privacy.
"It's their life. Either they decided to come out as a couple in public, and I think it's probably the case, or they have a right to have their privacy protected," said Hollande.
Maybe when hes’s tired of Carla Bruni, he could trade girl friends with Tom Brady.
Great Legs!
There is something to be said for the silence of the page. On it, a poem — three neat quatrains, say — can speak, indestructibly, to the eye, ear, and mind.
But there is also something to be said for singing along. Recently I found myself doing just that to a poem by, of all people, Emily Dickinson, as performed by, of all people, Carla Bruni, the Italian ex-supermodel and ex-girlfriend of Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and Donald Trump. Dickinson's poem, "I Went to Heaven," is featured on Ms. Bruni's new album, "No Promises." On it, she sets to music poems by W.B. Yeats, Dorothy Parker, Walter de la Mare, W.H. Auden, and Christina Rossetti, among others.
The ex-supermodel Carla Bruni turned to classic poetry to
supply the lyrics for her new album, 'No Promises.'
To the strumming of an acoustic guitar, the Dickinson poem — or can it now also be classified as a song lyric? — begins:
I went to Heaven
‘Twas a small Town
Lit, with a Ruby
Lathed, with Down
Stiller, than the fields
At the full Dew
Beautiful, as Pictures
No Man drew.
As you might expect, it's very beautiful. Paul Muldoon, who won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and has co-written rock songs himself (he collaborated with the late Warren Zevon), has not heard Ms. Bruni's album, but said, "anything that expands our sense of what poetry might be, that poetry is not a scary object written by a bunch of dead guys to be held at arms' length, is really good news." . . . .
Well, she didn't write the lyrics, that's for sure. Probably didn't write the music.
Looks like she just knows the right people, eh?
yitbos
I know, Captain Obvious.
Yeah, we Americans can look up to the great marriages of some of our leaders, the Kennedys and Clintons.
Mark
The new girlfriend of France’s President Sarkozy
My blog | 12 17 2007 | drzz
Posted on 12/17/2007 8:41:15 AM EST by drzz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1940589/posts
Now this is more like it.
Msr. Sarkozy just seems the type to be dating exmodels even if that is a dreadful picture of them both, and she is used to the spotlight as well.
I like French wine, food, cheese and women.
Now I like Sarkozy even more.
A exotic beauty...
bright and brunette...
The first step to the relationship came from "his" side.
With this tasteful brooch Sarko is breaking the hearts of all women
They exchange little touches. Everyone sees that this goes deeper than anything before.
Holding her Hand...
The couple defends its privacy
Real romance. ;)
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