I wish them long life, good health and happiness.
Posted on 01/06/2008 2:35:22 PM PST by Cincinna
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to marry his new girlfriend, the former model turned singer Carla Bruni, a French newspaper reported Sunday, claiming a wedding was "imminent".
Citing several anonymous sources, the Journal du Dimanche said the couple, currently on a private visit to Jordan at the invitation of King Abdullah II, are believed to have set a wedding date for either February 8 or 9.
Presidential spokesman David Martinon declined to comment on the front-page story.
Sarkozy, 52, and Bruni, 39, were photographed on Saturday touring the rose-red city of Petra in southern Jordan, the president carrying Bruni's young son Aurelien on his shoulders.
During a Christmas trip to Egypt, the recently-divorced president reportedly gave Bruni an engagement ring -- a pink diamond heart -- while Bruni gave him a luxury Swiss watch in grey steel.
Sarkozy and Bruni -- heiress to a tyre fortune whose former boyfriends include rock stars Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton -- have been trailed by a swarm of paparazzi since their romance was first publicised in mid-December.
Bruni may accompany Sarkozy on an official trip to India late this month, according to local media, which said the government of the morally conservative country was struggling to find the right protocol to greet her.
The French president and his second wife Cecilia announced their divorce in October after 11 years of a tumultuous marriage. Sarkozy has a 10-year-old son with Cecilia, as well two grown sons from a previous marriage.
Bruni's mother Marisa Tedeschi Bruni was quoted in the Italian press last month saying the president had asked for her daughter's hand in marriage.
Sarkozy, who has yet to comment publicly on his new relationship, is to answer questions on the subject at a New Year's press conference Tuesday, as a poll showed his confidence rating slipping seven points -- a drop blamed in part on voter concerns about his relationship.
According to a CSA poll in Le Parisien, 48 percent of voters say they trust the president to tackle France's problems, compared to 55 percent last month. Forty-five percent said they did not trust him, compared to 38 a month before.
CSA director Stephane Rozes said the slip chiefly reflected fears about the economy, and falling disposable incomes, but probably also unease among older voters -- he fell 15 percent among the over-60s -- about his highly-publicised romance.
What can one say?
The French are very different from you and me.
What the article doesn’t mention is that the Aurelian, the “darling little boy” of Carla Bruni, is the product of an affair that Carla had with the young son of her husband at the time.
Thus, Carla is at the the same time Mother and Grandmother of the child.
Not a good example to set, to say the very least!
ahhh...to be a 52 year old frenchman in love.
BFD.
Wow. I have her album. A very beautiful, wispy voice. Very good for a moment late at night or a rainy day. Not too hard on the eyes, either.
Not a wicked step-mother... at least from the boy’s point of view...
let them eat cake
That was pretty quick. I haven’t followed closely, but I hope this is not going to adversely effect Sarko getting the job he needs to do done.
I wish them long life, good health and happiness.
Now THAT would be something worth giving up the Presidency for... ;-D
Well, that certainly didn’t take long....
may have been going on longer than we know
Yeah, looks like they might have met before the divorce.
Ah, if only I were a gorgeous, leggy Italo-French model; I could have landed myself a cute French President, too.
The sob stole my chick!
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