Posted on 10/15/2007 10:25:48 PM PDT by Cincinna
President Nicolas Sarkozy said of his wife, Cécilia, in “Testimony,” his 2006 campaign book, “We cannot, nor do we know how to, distance ourselves from each other.”
Such a thing, he declared, would be “impossible!”
But the first lady of France seems to have done an excellent job of distancing herself from her husband since he assumed office last May, staying away from most official functions and staying out of public view for long periods. Now there are rumors that the 11-year Sarkozy marriage is about to end.
“I have no comment, truly, truly, truly, I assure you,” the presidential spokesman, David Martinon, told reporters the third time the question was asked at a news briefing on Monday. He did confirm, however, that Mrs. Sarkozy would not accompany her husband on a state visit to Morocco next week.
Certainly, Mrs. Sarkozy, a 49-year-old former model, has made clear from the start she would not be a first lady like any other. (snip) She was a no-show for a picnic lunch with the Bushes in New England in August. She did not accompany her husband to Bulgaria this month, where he received the nation’s highest honor for the health care workers’ liberation.
She was not at his side to watch France play England at the Rugby World Cup semifinals on Saturday night. (A Swiss newspaper said she was at a $1,000-a-night Lake Geneva spa.) When she backed out of an appearance on a popular television show the previous Sunday, Mr. Sarkozy sat in for her.
The Sarkozys’ relationship has been turbulent from the start. They were both married when they fell in love, and married each other in 1996 after they had lived together. She left him for another man in the summer of 2005 and returned several months later.
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::: yawn :::
Ah! l’Amour, toujours l’Amour!
Where is Cecilia?
Where is Louis?
When is Sarko going to make an official statement?
French gossip magazines, blogs, and just about everyone is abuzz about the mysterious Cecilia and the disintegration of the Sarko marriage.
There is important work to be done. Time to get this out in the open, and get back to business.
Disagree Bunny. I think this offers a fascinating insight into the French mentality, culture and mores.
We love Sarko and don’t want to see his strength diminished by this Bimbo.
Agreed, Cincinna. I was just unconcerned about whether she left.
It was definately not a comment on your most excellent posts. :)
Bump!
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If Sarko is smart - - and I have every reason to believe that he is VERY smart - - then he is using this silly gossip-monger diversion to take care of other business that perhaps is better buried out of sight in the back pages of the newspapers.
Ah! l’Amour, toujours l’Amour!
Where is Cecilia?
Where is Louis?
When is Sarko going to make an official statement?
LMAO!
In the past week, I've encountered more articles about this than about Thompson's trophy wife, and that's just what's posted here. Now it's in the NYT. Some whisper, all right.
Anything to take away from Mr. Sarko’s political victories! The MSM is going to complain often and loudly because they only want total socialism throughout all of France forever! In fact, the MSM throughout the total world only wants “leftist politics” to fully exist throughout the entire world forever.
All is fair in love and war Cincinna..
Sarkozy strikes me as being a practical man, this won’t drag on and on, it will be ended soon.
Have the strikes materialized as of yet?
‘We love Sarko and don’t want to see his strength diminished by this Bimbo.’
Oui!!
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