Since l’Affaire DSK happened, things in France have started to change. Women have started to speak out, and the era of open dirty little secrets of men in power covered up at the highest level is starting to end.
Sarko and the Right have played this smart, and gotten out of the way of the Socialist Party train wreck.
You are more hopeful then I Cincinna, suspect this is a cultural thing that goes back 500 yrs or more.