Carla Bruni Sarkozy and her son Aurelien
Posted on 10/19/2011 11:39:52 PM PDT by Cincinna
First Lady of France Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has stayed among the best dressed ladies over the years. French President Nicolas Sarkozy's supermodel wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave birth to a daughter on Wednesday, a source in the first lady's inner circle confirmed. "For the moment we don't know the little girl's name," the source said, as the world's media gathered near the La Muette clinic in Paris and Sarkozy returned from talks on the future of the eurozone.
Sarkozy arrived at the clinic shortly before 11.00 pm, just over three hours after the birth.
The girl is the French first couple's first baby since their marriage in 2008, although Bruni has one 10-year-old son from a previous relationship and thrice-married Sarkozy has three sons aged 14 to 26.
The baby is also the first born to a serving French president.
In an interview pre-recorded for a French state television broadcast due on Thursday, Bruni-Sarkozy said she had not known the baby's sex: "We've arranged for it to be a big surprise. Obviously, a nice surprise."
Sarkozy had earlier in the day visited his 43-year-old wife in the Paris clinic for half-an-hour, but was forced to jet off to Germany for crisis talks on the eurozone sovereign debt crisis before the birth itself.
He left Frankfurt just before the birth was announced.
The French president left the hospital shortly after midnight without talking to the assembled reporters.
The unpopular 56-year-old centre-right leader is languishing in the opinion polls, far behind newly-crowned Socialist challenger Francois Hollande, and faces a tough battle for re-election in next April's first round vote.
But despite the lure of a rare round of warm-hearted headlines the Elysee has so far chosen not to publicise the pregnancy, fearing that France's electorate would react badly to the exploitation of private life.
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Two of her more popular songs at the links...
Carla Bruni - Quelqu’un m’a dit
Carla Bruni - Tu Es Ma Came
Femme Fatale versus Sasquatch?
Carla Bruni Sarkozy and her son Aurelien
Hmm, bigger news that Sarko and Carli had a child, or that a frenchmen had a child?
Lol!
Congrats to them both!
Thanks Cincinna.
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