Besides - the big news in France today will be which of the president's mistresses is actually the First Lady of France.
Why, the hot young blonde one of course.
Ooh la la
(seriously though, I feel kind of bad for his long term girlfriend)
(ha! take that Americans! Our leaders aren't married, they have *girlfriends* and *mistresses*, and we still elect them!)
(it also helps that they aren't climate science deniers
)
The French don't like his old partner, she has not made herself popular, but the new one... well, ahem... I guess I can't put my hand on my heart and say I blame him...
If Sarko could have Carla Bruni, I guess Hollande wanted to upgrade in a similar fashion, the only new thing is the press are actually talking about it, in the past Mitterand had an entire separate family and no-one in the press discussed it, it was just 'private' and 'irrelevant'.
Can't see that happening in 'murica