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French President and UMP party candidate for the elections Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at his campaign headquarters after the first round of voting in Paris.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leave after casting their votes in the first round of French presidential elections in Paris, France.
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French President and UMP candidate Nicolas Sarkozy exits the voting booth as he prepares to cast his vote in the first round of French presidential elections in Paris, France.
French President and UMP candidate Nicolas Sarkozy arrives to cast his vote in the first round of French presidential elections in Paris, France.
France is apparently seeing unprecedented sales of La Princesse de Cleves (The Princess of Cleves), a novel by Madame de La Fayette, published in 1678.
Why?
Because Nicolas Sarkozy hates it.
The Guardian reports:
Sales of the book have soared as Sarkozy's popularity plummets.
Protest takes many forms, and reading the novel has apparently become an act of rebellion against the president. This week the Paris book fair sold out of badges saying "I'm reading La Princesse de Clèves". Scores of public protest readings have been held at places such as the Sorbonne, including one by the actor Louis Garrel. The novel, a tale of duty versus love at the king's court, has become a symbol of dissent among university staff protesting against Sarkozy's reforms. Jean Fabbri, head of the main union of university lecturers, said reading the book was "a form of resistance".
The cultural magazine Télérama this week polled 100 French writers on their favourite books and The Princess of Cleves came third, something the magazine said would never have happened before Sarkozy's jibes. Another magazine deemed it "the most startling political-literary phenomenon of the moment".
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He dared her to kiss him on the lips and said that she would be Marilyn Monroe to his JFK... The freshly divorced President also claimed to be her romantic and sexual soul mate and jealously mocked the legs of Mick Jagger, one of her former lovers.
...The couple, whom Mr Séguéla describes as Shakespearean, left together and the presidential car dropped Ms Bruni off at her home after she had given him her telephone number. Ms Bruni telephoned her host ten minutes later and complained: “Your chum - what charm, what intelligence, what attention, what energy, what seductiveness. But I find him a bit of a boor. I left him my number and he still hasn't called.” Mr Séguéla describes the pair as made for one another despite Ms Bruni's reputation as a predator and her initial disdain for the President.
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