Nicolas Sarkozy ‘Threatened to Smash the Face of Editor Who Said Carla Bruni Was Maneater’
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Nicolas Sarkozy threatened to “smash the face” of a political editor during a 40-minute conversation after his magazine suggested Carla Bruni was a maneater, a new biography claims.

The French president’s alleged threat was sparked by an article in Le Point news magazine offering “24 tips to the President ahead of his marriage to Mademoiselle Bruni”.

One piece of advice was: “Do not introduce your new wife to your sons, Barack Obama or any handsome men.”

In a new book called M. Le President, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, director of Le Point, gives what he says is a blow by blow account of the president’s tirade following the article.

The president allegedly called shortly after publication in January 2008, started with a few niceties before suddenly turning apoplectic.

“This article is filth and I should smash your face in,” he reportedly told Mr Giesbert.

Mr Giesbert replied: “Are you threatening me?” Mr Sarkozy hit back: “You deserve it. I don’t know what’s holding me back.”

“There’s no reason for you and Carla to feel insulted,” replied the author.

“I’m sure you’d blow your top if I wrote that your wife was a whore that everyone had slept with and even wanted to have sex with your children,” the president went on.

“Never did our magazine suggest Carla was a whore,” said Mr Giesbert. » | Henry Samuel, Paris | Thursday, April 07, 2011

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Nicolas Sarkozy biography: extracts from M Le President – Here are some extracts from the new biography M Le President Scenes of political life 2005-2011. » | Friday, April 08, 2011

Nicolas Sarkozy : visite surprise aux lectrices de Femme Actuelle

TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE:
Carla Bruni à Sarkozy: "Bon courage chouchou !!!" Des lectrices de Femme Actuelle ont rencontré Carla Bruni dans son appartement privé de l'Élysée. En confiance, la première dame de France a lâché une phrase qui restera dans les annales. >>> A-E Celton | Mardi 19 Mai 2009

Carla Sarkozy demande la libération de Aung San Suu Kyi
Carla Bruni avec la reine Elizabeth II à Londres lors de la visite d'État au Royaume-Uni. Photo grâce aux Google Images
LE PARISIEN: Carla Sarkozy a demandé lundi la libération de Aung San Suu Kyi, dans une «lettre ouverte au gouvernement de Birmanie», dont une copie a été transmise par l'Elysée aux agences de presse.

«Nous savons désormais qu'Aung San Suu Kyi, prix Nobel de la Paix, risque d'être condamnée à nouveau à une peine d'emprisonnement qui, compte tenu de son état de santé, menace sa vie même», écrit la première dame de France, dans cette lettre datée de lundi et portant comme en-tête «Carla Sarkozy».

«Au-delà de la situation politique en Birmanie, je profite de la position qui est la mienne et de l'écho dont cette lettre pourrait bénéficier pour me faire le porte-parole de tous ceux, dans mon pays, qui trouvent intolérable le sort réservé à cette femme», écrit-elle. >>> | Lundi 18 Mai 2009

Carla Bruni Sarkozy Has a Headache!

Carla Bruni Sarkozy romping on the beach with Raphaël Enthoven. Photo courtesy of Google Images
MAIL Online: Hundreds of 'highly intimate' images of the French president's wife and her former lover have been stolen during a burglary.

The photographs and videos of Carla Bruni, who is on an official trip to Spain with Nicolas Sarkozy, date from the 41-year- old's affair with philosopher Raphael Enthoven.

Thieves broke into the Paris flat of his brother, 27-year-old actor Julien Enthoven, where the prints and videos were being kept, and stole them.

Police believe the images could be posted on the web, serving to embarrass Nicolas Sarkozy or be sold for a sizeable sum, thanks to his third wife's status.

A source said: 'The thieves appeared to know exactly what they were looking for, taking highly intimate prints, a camera full of further images, videos, and numerous computer files.

'They broke into Mr Enthoven's flat in Rue Dauphine, in the sixth arrondissement, on Sunday night, smashing a window in the sitting room which looks out on to the courtyard. Nobody was at home at the time, and nothing else was taken.'

Raphael, who fathered Miss Bruni's son Aurelien, eight, is believed to have entrusted the pictures to his brother as he did not want them to embarrass his new partner, or Mr Sarkozy, a detective working on the case said. Carla's Agony as Intimate Photos of Her with Ex-lover Are Stolen in Raid on Paris Flat >>> By Peter Allen | Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Yet again, I have had a photo removed from this webite by Photobucket for contravention of their ‘terms and conditions’. This happens with alarming frequency!

Images such as these are not pornographic. I never post anything pornographic on this website; moreover, these images are freely available on Google Images. Were they to be pornographic, they should not, would not, appear on that Google source.

This image is one of Carla Bruni Sarkozy, the First Lady of France, no less than Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President’s wife! Are we therefore to conclude that Photobucket considers this photo of her to be improper or obscene? If so, this is an insult to the First Lady of France!

To me, it would appear that Photobucket is being overly sensitive. The dictionary definition of pornography is as follows:

Obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit.

Origin:

1840–50; < Gk pornográph(os) writing about harlots (porno-, comb. form of pórnē harlot + -graphos -graph ) [Source: Dictionary.com]

This photo certainly has artistic merit; and it in no way meets the criteria laid down in the dictionary for pornography.

What this also shows me is that there is a cleft between attitudes to nudity in Europe and America. Americans are probably still labouring under their puritanical past. Europe has liberated itself – long ago!

This image is hosted by ImageShack. We will see if they take a broader view. – ©Mark