You do know that his ex-wife (Jacqueline Marylene Giorgi), a French citizen and mother of his first children, was accreditied as a French diplomat and assigned to several French embassies overseas in West Africa as, ahem, "cultural liason," right? That's where they met before he married her. They were assigned to the same country, he from the US and she from France.
I did not know that. Very interesting!