Désamour and Amour
By MAUREEN DOWD, NYT
PARIS
In the last election, Nicolas Sarkozy lost his wife. In this one, he lost France.
His friends worry about how the high-strung, pugnacious bantam will adjust to his political Elba.
“The falling out of love of the French will be worse than his divorce with Cécilia,” a Sarkozy friend told Le Parisien. “It wouldn’t surprise me if he goes through a small depression.”
This nation of elegant formality frowned at a leader lacking impulse control, who could arrive late for a meeting with the pope and then check his phone, and who could dismiss a citizen who wouldn’t shake his hand at an agricultural fair with a profane version of “Get lost, you poor idiot.” At a jubilant celebration at the Bastille Sunday night, French revelers held up plastic glasses of Champagne and signs telling Sarko: “Get lost, you poor idiot.”
The rejected suitor is retiring from politics to a home in a posh French neighborhood with his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wealthy and sleek singer and former supermodel, and their baby daughter, Giulia.
(More here.)
PARIS
In the last election, Nicolas Sarkozy lost his wife. In this one, he lost France.
His friends worry about how the high-strung, pugnacious bantam will adjust to his political Elba.
“The falling out of love of the French will be worse than his divorce with Cécilia,” a Sarkozy friend told Le Parisien. “It wouldn’t surprise me if he goes through a small depression.”
This nation of elegant formality frowned at a leader lacking impulse control, who could arrive late for a meeting with the pope and then check his phone, and who could dismiss a citizen who wouldn’t shake his hand at an agricultural fair with a profane version of “Get lost, you poor idiot.” At a jubilant celebration at the Bastille Sunday night, French revelers held up plastic glasses of Champagne and signs telling Sarko: “Get lost, you poor idiot.”
The rejected suitor is retiring from politics to a home in a posh French neighborhood with his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wealthy and sleek singer and former supermodel, and their baby daughter, Giulia.
(More here.)
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