Paris — Their early courtship was hardly discreet: President Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni visited Disneyland Paris together, then jetted off to Jordan with cameras in tow. Weeks later, they were married.
Now, Bruni-Sarkozy is about to have a baby, and the pending birth has taken on the air of a state secret – revealing the caution within Sarkozy's political team as the unpopular president eyes a possible re-election bid.
Bruni-Sarkozy is poised to become the first first lady in modern France to give birth. Sarkozy, who has long cast himself a mold-breaker, is the first French leader to divorce – and remarry – while in office. They wed in early 2008, 3-1/2 months after he divorced the now-former Cecilia Sarkozy.
The hush-hush atmosphere over the upcoming birth says a lot about France.
France's media establishment has a reputation for cushy ties to political powers-that-be, whose personal lives have mostly been off-limits. And conventional wisdom holds that the French public,...
Now, Bruni-Sarkozy is about to have a baby, and the pending birth has taken on the air of a state secret – revealing the caution within Sarkozy's political team as the unpopular president eyes a possible re-election bid.
Bruni-Sarkozy is poised to become the first first lady in modern France to give birth. Sarkozy, who has long cast himself a mold-breaker, is the first French leader to divorce – and remarry – while in office. They wed in early 2008, 3-1/2 months after he divorced the now-former Cecilia Sarkozy.
The hush-hush atmosphere over the upcoming birth says a lot about France.
France's media establishment has a reputation for cushy ties to political powers-that-be, whose personal lives have mostly been off-limits. And conventional wisdom holds that the French public,...
- 10/11/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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