I don’t think the event you are talking about was in France, it was off the coast of New England or the mid-Atlantic somewhere, it might have been the summer of ‘89. He wasn’t married at the time so in theory it wasn’t really a scandal, just that it was happening out in plain view (not inside if it was a small yacht). Not sure who the woman was, that was one part of it that seemed like it was kept secret; she might have been a local.