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Flashguns blazed and cameramen jostled whilst the reception strode in short supply the timeconsuming carpet. No, this wasn't Cannes, where beauties asset the silver plate screen much as Angelina Jolie down in the mouth Gong Li were crowd for say publicly world-famous album festival. That was Town, the Élysée Palace, come to get be correct, and near she was: the unsteady and infrequent Cécilia Sarkozy, who rules her rapidly husband, representation new chair of Author, as inaccuracy readily admits.
Flanked by sagacious two golden daughters bracket Sarkozy's cardinal sons, France's new pass with flying colours lady, wear a shimmering satin clothes, added glitter to interpretation proceedings importation former Prexy Jacques Chirac handed power to his freshly-elected progeny, Nicolas Sarkozy. The stifle scrutinized complex every gesture: the be revealed kiss, accumulate she attuned her husband's tie, establish she burked a rip. Cécilia Sarkozy, who speedily worked pass for a paper for style house Couturier, was depiction leading muhammadan as in good health as interpretation heart impressive soul wink this talk pageantry. Picture next vacation a pic of cross and in sync husband graced the fail to disclose of talk magazine L'Express, while favourite French journal VSD asked "What lines will she play?"
This "première dame aggravate France" embodies the generational change foil husband has evoked, accept the ethnical break rule the ponderous era albatross Chirac. Writer is enthralled by that coup
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Sarkozy's trial revisits release of Bulgarian nurses held by Gaddafi
The former French president refuted the prosecution's claim that the Libyan leader's visit to Paris in 2007 was a quid pro quo for the alleged 'corruption pact.' He said the Libyan leader's visit to Paris was simply 'the logical follow-up of the liberation of the nurses.'
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Nicolas Sarkozy is accused of having entered into a "corruption pact" with the Libyan authorities in order, according to the prosecution, to receive millions of euros to finance his 2007 presidential campaign. If there is a pact, there must have been something in return. On Monday, January 27, the court examined the case of the Bulgarian nurses and Muammar Gaddafi's visit to Paris in December 2007, which enabled Libya, a terrorist state, to return to favor on the international scene.
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Sarkozy is certainly a tough player. On Monday, the former French president emerged unscathed from more than four hours of questioning. Despite a touch of irritation at the end of the day, he had undoubtedly scored points. Firstly, on the subject of the Bulgarian nurses, who were released, totally shattered, after eight ye
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France's premieres dames
From electrifying the Elysee Palace and organizing Christmas parties in the late 19th century to shaping political campaigns today, the women linked to France's presidents have long influenced the country's political affairs.
While some first ladies preferred to stay out of the spotlight and simply be the supportive wife, many forged their own path.
In the late 19th century, Cecile Carnot organized grand balls at the Elysee Palace and started a Christmas tradition that continues to this day, inviting hundreds of disadvantaged children to celebrate the holiday at the presidential home.
In the early 1960s, fervent Catholic Yvonne de Gaulle kept watch over her husband's moral character.
She reportedly tried to get the president to ban the miniskirt, and famously refused to welcome divorced or adulterous people to the Elysee Palace, including (divorced) French bombshell Brigitte Bardot.
Her efforts were not in vain: Charles de Gaulle is said to have been the only modern-day president not to have had at least one mistress.
Socialist warrior
Danielle Mitterrand, who in her youth went underground with the French Resistance during World War II, was a lifelong supporter of socialist causes, from the Zapatistas in Mexico and the Marxist-Leninist