For the first time ever in France, the incoming presidential couple, Francois Hollande and his partner Valerie Trierweiler, are not man and wife and the protocol boffins at the French foreign ministry are straining over an interesting conundrum: what to call the new First Lady? Francois Hollande and journalist Valerie Trierweiler have been together since 2005; openly so since 2007, when Hollande&…
…ent on to lose her parliamentary seat and saw her ambition to become the speaker of France’s Assemblée Nationale vanish with it. In an interview with the news magazine Le Point, Thomas Hollande, 27, who was active behind the scenes in both his parents’ election campaigns, shatters any attempts by the Elysée Palace to paper over the domestic-turned-political spat. “What I find rep…
gence.” Florent Massonneau added: “Valerie did not have an easy childhood. Her father loved her very much but he was disabled. He lost a leg in the war. “And he died young, too young. She was not even 21.” Florent Massonneau lives around the corner from the council house that was Valerie Trierweiler’s childhood home, in the working class district of Monplaisir. Her mother Jeanne still lives there….
…ther-of-three at home in Paris when he travelled to London for meetings with both Prime Minister David Cameron and the Queen earlier this month. Francois Hollande and Segolene Royal lived together for 28 years before the President left her for Valerie Trierweiler in 2005. News magazine L’Express wrote of Valerie Trierweiler last month: “For her, Segolene Royal remains the object of profound…
France’s first lady Valerie Trierweiler has admitted she made a mistake sending tweets aimed against President Francois Hollande’s former partner. Valerie Trierweiler caused controversy when she used Twitter to publicly back an opponent of Segolene Royal in parliamentary elections in June. Segolene Royal, the Socialist presidential candidate in 2007, is the mother of Francois Hollande…
Newly elected French President Francois Hollande celebrated his first-ever National Day (known outside of France as Bastille Day) as head of state on Saturday with usual pomp, military parade and flight show. At 10:00 a.m. local time, Francois Hollande presided the military parade down the Champs Elysees Avenue, which involved some 4,950 soldiers, 368 armored vehicles, 241 horses and 98 jets and…
…tives for 577 seats in the National Assembly. After the first round, 36 seats out of 577 were declared in constituencies where the winner got more than 50% of the vote. Socialists and their allies won 25 of those seats. France is voting in a second round of parliamentary elections seen as crucial for President Francois Hollande's reform agenda The French Senate is already under the control of…
are key decision-makers over the strategy supposed to pull Europe out of crisis. According to official figures released on Tuesday morning, the French economy showed no growth in the first quarter of 2012. Growth in the final quarter of 2011 was also revised down to 0.1% from 0.2%. However, Germany’s economy grew by a stronger than expected 0.5% in the first three months of the year. Follow…
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Amanda Bynes in leg shackles following her arrest for public endangermentAmanda Bynes is facing public disgrace after appearing in court charged with public endangerment for allegedly throwing a pot b**g from her New York apartment’s…
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Justin Bieber asks guests at his parties to sign Liability Waiver and ReleaseAfter a string of negative press, it looks like Justin Bieber may be trying to curtail the less positive news by imposing a ban on people talking about his parties. Having…
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