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What are we to make of the Musical Beds Mini-Series currently going on in France? It appears that Mr Sarkozy wanted to emulate the Kennedy Camelot Enchantment and have a more outgoing First Lady than the one he had.

Witness Nicolas Sarkozy, currently mooning around Paris like a lovestruck goon, making doe eyes at his new girlfriend Carla Bruni, as the rest of the country burns, riots and strikes - though thankfully to a soundtrack of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg...

The perfume of Cécilia still lingered on the sheets at the Elysée Palace...

:: From a nicely written article by Bryony Gordon.

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:: Related: As France continued to reel from the latest chapter of what is being dubbed the Sarko soap opera...

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*The Paris civil court rejected a request for an injunction order to prevent "Cecilia" by Anna Bitton, a journalist and former friend of Cecilia Sarkozy, from coming out in bookstores... At the court hearing on Thursday, Cecilia's lawyers argued that a ban was warranted because the book - excerpts of which have been published at length in French magazines and newspapers - "seriously violated her right to privacy."*

:: From AFP ::

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