Does Monsieur Sarkozy think that he is a cerebrity in Hollywood or something? I feel sorry for French citizens to have such a president in France although they have chosen him as the head of the state.... I haven't heard anything about what he has achieved as the president through any international news....

Sie, London, UK

Scrofulous: Morally degenerate; corrupt. What a great word. I can't wait for my first opportunity to use it in a conversation.

Mark, Chicago, USA / IL

Good for them....what about reporting about Monsieur Sarkozy's feats as a statesman and if he is delivering his promises, every once in a while ?
Thanks.

Bob, Roma, Italy

crispin:

Nicarla Sarkozy is unoutbootable (in French: indéboulonnable) since (t)he(y) can invoke a constitutional election legitimating anything done.

All the French can do now is hope (against hope) for the best.

James, Dijon, France

James Delcourt, Dijon,

What ever will come, Sarkozy doesn't treat his wifes or girl friends like Henry VIII: divorced - beheaded - died - divorced - beheaded - survived. But I am sure the next marriage and the next divorce won't be the last.

Rolf-Peter Lacher, Gammertingen, Germany

a scrofulous head of state. Will the French people boot him out? To hell with rotten Sarkozy.

crispin wesley, coimbatore, India

Earwiglet, London

I found your observation to be quite humorous.

Beth, San Francisco, California

to me, it doesn't show much thought. and this guy's got a nuclear arsenal

Phil Barnes, preston, england

How did she age by one year in two paragraphs?
"Mr Sarkozy, 52, even took Ms Bruni, 39, on an official trip to Egypt,..." then " There were even unlikely reports over the weekend that Ms Bruni, 40, may be pregnant..."

earwiglet, London,

If you want a celibate Head of State-go live in the Vatican

Seamus , Dublin, Ireland

I disapprove of all rumors about this supposed marriage which Italian people have been doing with the only ridiculous pretext that Carla Bruni is Italian, even if she has been living in France for years and may be she never lived here in Italy.
all tv programs are talking about their marriage and their likely honeymoon in Verona. Comperes even disturbed Alessandro Manzoni, the author of The Betrothed, and the famous quotation "questo matrimonio non s'ha da fa".

viviana, Rome, Italy

Far more intriguing to me is exactly how old Ms Bruni actually is?? One paragraph states she is 39 - two paragraphs later she is 40!!??

JC, Haywards Heath, West Sussex

There’s one born every Minute !!

Mike, Berlin,

Do you not think he is trying to be a people person?

Anon, london,

Kayden- how extraordinary that you believe that a President getting married would not allow them to concentrate on his/her job. Are you saying that political leaders should lead solitary lives in order to perform their roles better? One is still a human being as well as a professional person!

MonacoMum, Roquebrune Cap Martin, France

When Sarkozy was elected in May, myself and most of France had high hopes of an upturn in economic prosperity.

Instead he seems to find it more stimulating to parade himself and girlfriend (wife??) in front of the paparazzi at every available opportunity perhaps to show that following being dumped by his wife he hasn't lost his touch.

Instead of behaving like a pathetic gigolo he would be better off spending his time fulfilling the promises to the electorate that put him in the seat of power he has today.

Get a grip and grow up!

Shirley, Josselin, France

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Antoine, Hamburg,

I hardly have to time to watch the News when I am not working, so how come a man who is supposed to be running a country, finds the time to woo 3 consecutive wives, bear several children and go to Disney Land?

I would maybe like to see some celibate political leaders some day, just to reassure me that they were spending time doing what they were supposed to be doing rather than using their position to attract mates and gallivant around as if the world was not over populated enough.

Kayden, Cambs, UK

Your commentator is incorrect to refer to "secrecy" surrounding politicians private lives here in France.

Rather it is the belief that everyone is entitled to some privacy unless their actions impinge upon their responsibilities. In other words, the French do not have the pathological desire to find scandal or persue celebrity which so mars public life in the UK.

Roger Manley, Chantonnay, France