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Video: Carla Bruni Performs At Mandela Concert
Watch France’s first lady Carla Bruni perform at Nelson Mandela’s birthday concert in New York.
This is the first time I’ve seen Bruni perform, and I must say that I’m impressed. She sings one song in French and one in perfect English.
When the camera pans to President Sarkozy in the audience — he’s positively beaming.
(hat tip Huffington Post)
President Sarkozy And Supermodel Carla Bruni Marry In “Secret Ceremony”
According to the Daily Mail, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has married his supermodel girlfriend Carla Bruni.
The influential L’Est Républicain newspaper, which has close links with Mr Sarkozy’s former wife Cecilia, said the ceremony took place at the Elysée Palace in Paris last Thursday.
It was a civil ceremony attended by a few friends, according to the paper, which quoted a source whom it said was there.
President Sarkozy met Bruni at a dinner party less than two months ago!
You have to respect the man’s hustle. He’s not about to let that Presidential bed get cold!!
-Chris Jones
Report: Sarkozy To Marry Model
According to the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche French President Nicolas Sarkozy intends to marry his supermodel girlfriend Carla Bruni on Feb. 8 or 9.
The recently divorced French leader has flaunted their unmarried relationship on recent holidays in Egypt and Jordan, fanning criticism that he is playing too fast and loose with the presidential image.
The newspaper report said that in December, less than a month after Sarkozy met Bruni, he gave her a heart-shaped diamond engagement ring.
Sarkozy and his wife of 11 years, Cecilia, divorced in October. Their marital problems became well known in May 2005 when she appeared in public at the side of event organizer Richard Attias.
A marriage to Bruni, a one-time star of the catwalks who is now a singer, would be Sarkozy’s third: He divorced his first wife, Marie, in the late 80s — after he had met and befriended Cecilia.
Bruni, an Italian-born French citizen, has dated famous men including Mick Jagger and Donald Trump. She has also reportedly been linked to singer Eric Clapton and actor Vincent Perez.
Welcome Back France, We Missed You!!
France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, burst onto the Washington scene on Tuesday, in his first official visit to the White House and asking the United States to embrace him as a friend.
Mr. Sarkozy backslapped and hugged his way through the day. He also proclaimed his determination to be a reliable partner of the United States.
“I come to Washington to bear a very simple message, a message that I bear on behalf of all Frenchmen,” he said in a toast at a formal White House dinner in his honor. “I want to reconquer the heart of America.”
“Sarko l’Américain,” as he is called, is considered the most pro-American French president in decades. Mr. Sarkozy’s relationship with Mr. Bush is said to be warm, and his stance on Iran tough.
That’s not the attitude Bush would have ever heard from former French President Jacques Chirac who publicly lobbied against the United States at the U.N. and everywhere else. In electing Sarkozy the French people have clearly rejected Chirac’s socialist policies that have damaged the economy in France in recent years.
In his remarks in the State Dining Room, he spoke with passion about freedom and liberty and the need for U.S.-French cooperation in addressing terrorism, nuclear proliferation, poverty and religious fanaticism.
The U.S. and France back tough diplomacy to keep Iran from having nuclear weapons. They have jointly sponsored U.N. resolutions supporting Lebanese sovereignty. And while France opposed the war in Iraq, Sarkozy sent his foreign minister on a surprise three-day trek to Baghdad in August to enhance France’s role in Iraq’s future.
“I never quite understood why we had to fight with the United States,” Sarkozy said earlier in the day at a meeting of the French-American Business Council.
Sarkozy has wasted no time in his bid to modernize France, in part by trying to inject an American-style work ethic. As a sign of his pro-American tendencies, he even took a summer vacation in the United States.
Many Americans who have been apart of the widespread “Boycott France” campaign can finally in turn begin vacationing in France again.
French president walks out of TV interview
French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked out of an interview with CBS television news show 60 minutes, according to a clip of the show released Sunday in advance of the interview’s airing.
A clearly disturbed Sarkozy stood up muttering in French about the question, which was not heard, in a short publicity clip put on the Internet ahead of the 60 Minutes broadcast Sunday night.
Before the CBS news show interview in Paris even began, Sarkozy called his press secretary “an imbecile” for arranging the session on a busy day.
In the interview conducted earlier this month and aired Sunday night, he candidly discussed what he likes about the U.S. But he grew frustrated when asked about his wife.
“If I had to say something about Cecilia, I would certainly not do so here,” Sarkozy replied.
He declared the interview over and said: “Bon courage.” Two weeks later, the Sarkozys’ divorce was announced.
-Chris Jones
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