Affairs of state: Nicolas and Chantal and Carla and Benjamin
It’s all tré¨s Frané§ais.
The marriage of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and First Lady Carla Bruni appears to have succumbed to simultaneous affairs, he with Junior Minister for Ecology Chantal Jouanno and she with singer Benjamin Biolay.
I say, if a marriage is going to have affairs, they might as well be simultaneous. And if you’re going to marry Carla Bruni, you’d better be ready for those liasons.
Is there anyone on earth who is surprised by any of this?
[NOTE: This article fills us in on a bit more of the background of Sarkozy’s new paramour Chantal Jouanno, who is not only the Junior Ecology Minister (whatever that is), but is also married and a karate champion. Ah, these renaissance women!]
Tres Magnifique…non?
http://lenouveaunoirblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/tres-magnifique/
But, but…those ” the other two” are so ugly! Especially the Karate-Greeny Bureaucrat!
Any word on the French man on the street’s reaction?
Tatyana: Ugly? I don’t think so. Few people on earth, however, are as attractive as Bruni. But she doesn’t ever seem to stick around very long.
Bob from Virginia: a shrug?
Neo: not even compared to Carla, who, of course, is a walking perfection (but a weak singer with not much voice and less stage charm) – but just from a ordinary , “street person”, POV.
Look at that woman- or IS she? Those thin lips, heavy lower half of the face, thick nose bridge, the angular chin. The hat a la Lenin – mon Dieu, what an unattractive creature.
Tatyana: Here is a better photo. She looks fine to me. And here’s another.
Did anyone else see that hilarious photo of the Obamas with the Sarkozy/Brunis, Michelle giving Carla a sidelong look of intense hostility? It appeared about a year ago. I’d love to see it again, if anyone can link to it.
Ok ladies, in the second photo of Chantal that Neo linked in her 3:06 post, tell me what’s up with those shoes????
They look like something a Klingon would wear into battle. Dagger toes!
Neo,
I suggest another possible reaction:
See how sophisticated we are. Look what those prudish Americans did to Bill Clinton. Thank God we understand more about l’amour.
mizpants, I remember it well. It turns up on a Google image search for “Carla Bruni and Michelle Obama.” Here’s one:
http://tinyurl.com/ylzckwr
We lucked out and got a President having an affair with himself.
That’s the one, Mrs. Whatsit! Thanks.
And I loved the comment: “She is very charming and charismatic, just like his husband.”
physics guy: tres fashionable. Very pointy-toed shoes are favored by many. They are supposed to make your legs look longer or give a longer line or something. I can’t stand them and don’t wear them.
At least those are not as bad as the ones Lotte Lenya wore as Rosa Klebb in “From Russia With Love.”
Steve H: actually, I think we got a president and a first lady having simultaneous affairs with themselves.
Neo: you’re right, that was just an unfortunate photo.
The one where she is in white pantsuit is OK.
Tatyana: I trust Sarkozy’s taste in feminine pulchritude.
Somebody has to say it, it might as well be me. Neither of those gals could hold a candle to Dyan Cannon back in the day.
“Oh yes, very much. He would never have affairs. And have you ever seen a picture of him having an affair? Ah, so” Bruni said, giving her interviewer a piercing stare.
Well, that settles everything.
But what would the French say if Sarko wanted to meet a certain Navy veteran for a “Massa massage”?
I’ll be the first to admit looking up pulchritude 🙂
Your just not old enough to remember it Steve. It’s right up there with va-va-va-voom!!
PA Cat –
I’m guessing it wouldn’t be “Yes, Massa…”
RACIST!
Oh, boy.
D’OH!
All the people in this menage a quatre are very attractive. I wish they would shove all the moral posturing aside and say, as Tiger should have said, it’s none of our damn business.