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Madame Sarkozy
Idont love you. Moi non plus. The divorce hearing took just 15 minutes, and with it, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his manifestly miserable first femme, Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz, were officially no longer a couple. The French, predictably, reacted with a shrug.
The Sarkozys 11-year marriage had been famously troubled since at least 2005, when she ran off to New York with another man for eight months and the French media started scrutinizing their relationship. Madame Sarkozy did not vote for her husband. She rarely appeared in public with him and looked grim when she did. And to her credit, she made no effort to impersonate a good political wife.
The only surprise in France was that the Sarkozys marital woes made it into the news at all. In the past, French politicians peccadilloes have been off-limits; newspapers did not even report the existence of President Francois Mitterrands illegitimate daughter until his funeral. That taboo was broken with the rise of Sarkozys political fortunes. Even so, the end of Laffair Sarkozy was refreshingly dignified no tabloid tell-alls, no fighting over finances, no disputes over custody of their 10-year-old son. The marriage had obviously become painful and humiliating; its demise isnt a tragedy, its a mercy.
The French example makes one wonder when Americans will begin handling the flammable mixture of sex and politics more sensibly. Many voters seem to believe that politicians who have troubled marriages are flawed people. This belief appears unshaken despite abundant ancient and latter-day evidence that happiness or lack thereof in marriage is a lousy predictor of a leaders performance. (How a politician treats underlings, old friends, rivals and campaign contributors is generally a more accurate barometer of character, though such topics dont sell tabloids.) Voters should know that anyone driven enough to succeed in modern American politics like anyone at the top of other workaholic, hard-driving professions is, by definition, highly likely to have strained his or her marriage, whether or not adultery was involved. Yet the urge to equate marital rectitude with political rectitude remains strong.
This campaign season, the front-runners for the presidential nomination in both U.S. political parties are known to have experienced major marital woes. So this would be a good year for Americans to practice the fine French art of divorcing judgments about sex from judgments about policy. Vive la tolérance.
Such views received initial approval across the political spectrum, which so far has given the new president high popularity ratings, reaching a rarely seen 70 percent. But public opinion is yet to digest the deeper meaning of the Sarkozy program, and foreign policy nuances rarely galvanize French voters.
French analysts cite the difference between the suggestions of the Vedrine report and Mr. Sarkozy's own guidelines to about 180 French ambassadors gathered in Paris toward the end of August. The guidelines called for "an active role" on the world scene, included a stiff warning about Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons, promised cooperation with Washington to Europe's independent defense force Mr Sarkozy's choice of the French diplomatic corps for his first major foreign policy address was surprising because of his past criticism of diplomats, and particularly of the foreign affairs ministry, known as the Quai d'Orsay for its location on the banks of the River Seine.
Yasmina Reza, a well-known playwright and Sarkozy biographer, said he has spoken of "getting rid of the Quai d'Orsay" and has referred to several ambassadors as "idiots." But the tempestuous 52-year-old president is known for his outbursts, when he has referred to his political enemies as well as to his aides "with unprintable vulgarities," Miss Reza wrote in "Dawn Evening or Night" (L'aube le soir ou la nuit), a story of Mr. Sarkozy's quest for power, which she observed while following him for a year.
Mr. Sarkozy's election last May brought an unusual couple to the elegant presidential Elysee Palace in the heart of Paris. Both he and his 49-year-old wife openly dislike protocol and "sweep aside rules," wrote the conservative Paris daily Le Figaro. Thus, the French first lady boycotted an official dinner at the June summit of the eight industrial nations in Heiligendamm, Germany, and while vacationing in the United States, declined — on short notice — an invitation to have lunch with the Bush family at their summer residence.
The triumph of the stunning, dark-haired, 5-foot-10 former fashion model was her trip to Libya, where she met strongman Moammar Gadhafi — and brought back in the presidential plane six Bulgarian medics sentenced to death by a Libyan court on accusations of infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus.
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Est-elle asthmatique ou at-elle courir un marathon avant ce spectacle?
BongoandReikiT 2 years ago
ed anche con l'inglese ti dimostri straordinaria... brava carlà, mitica ed inimitabile come sempre.
madameBruni 3 years ago