Cecilia Sarkozy: I hated life in the limelight
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Cecilia Sarkozy says her marriage to French President Nicolas Sarkozy failed just five months after his election because she hated life in the limelight.
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"Clearly Sarkozy is setting the economic agenda"  She's French. She's female. And she is causing quite a stir. Christine Lagarde, the first woman finance minister for a G-8 nation, was rated the best minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government last month by one of France's top-selling newspapers. Not bad for a political newcomer who only two years ago was unknown outside legal and business circles, and who is vocally pro-market in a capitalism-wary nation.It hasn't always been this easy.In 1980s Paris, a law firm in the French capital told the young female applicant her sex disqualified her from high office. So Lagarde turned to Chicago-based law firm Baker &amp; McKenzie, where she went on to become the firm's first female director in 1999. Read more
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It's not easy being the leader of Europe's socialist "utopia," France. It takes a penchant for other people's money, a distinct anti-American attitude, and the ability to sleep on the run.
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The tony Paris suburb that made the French president's political career is not amused by his antics, and may take it out on Sarkozy's pick for mayor
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The ex-wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday lost an attempt to hold up publication of a book in which she is quoted as describing her former husband in unflattering terms.
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Challenging one of the great taboos of French politics, a new book has laid bare the love life of the country's amorous leaders.
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President Sarkozy's high-profile romance with ex-model Carla Bruni appears to hurt his ratings.
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A love-hate relationship between a magazine and its readers ends.
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The ex-wife of French President Nicolas  Sarkozy on Friday lost an attempt to hold up publication of a  book in which she is quoted as describing her former husband in  unflattering terms.
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In the wake of the SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale scandal, Franceâs business aristocracy finds itself in a place it never wants to be: the spotlight.
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Anger over decision to broadcast documentary containing graphic images of Paris car crash.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Cecilia are separating, the president's office said in a terse statement on Thursday, ending rampant speculation about the state of their 11-year old marriage.
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French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy was accused by his rivals of xenophobia and flirting with far-right voters on Friday after proposing to create a ministry for immigration and national identity.
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France's First Lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, apologises for comparing a French magazine to the war-time pro-Nazi press.
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Trade unions at France's international  news channel France 24 have strongly criticized President  Nicolas Sarkozy for saying the broadcaster should ditch its  English and Arabic services and stick to French.
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Nicolas Sarkozy's ex-wife Cecilia on Friday lost a court bid to block the release of a book in which she is quoted as describing the French president as a womaniser and uncaring father.
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A plan by French President Nicolas  Sarkozy to commemorate a young communist resistance hero shot  by France's wartime Nazi occupiers has stirred controversy and  sparked accusations of manipulation by the government.