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Location: Near Tours, France about 47°10'N 0°25'E
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In this story french people are not at all shoked by the fact that Holland has more than obe girlfriend (she is not even a mistress since Hollande is not married with anyone). The problem is that Valerie Trierweiller had be given special 'first lady status' when she was not Hollande wife. The current affair is just revealing the fact that trierweiler should not have any status anymore since she's is not Hollande's wife nor even his girlfriend...
He is a swine like his socialist comrade and former IMF boss DSK. He is thinking only of his pleasures and indulges into a hot sexual life while the country is deep in trouble. He is not worthy to be President. I loathe the guy , as most Frenchmen. It takes only Americans to find his behaviour "funny" and "exotic" I guess..
The guy is a swine and lacks elementary common decency (including towards the woman who still is the First Lady). And he is not liked : 3/4 of the French public (latest poll) has an unfavourable opinion of him...
To the French a man has duties towards his wife and she has certain privileges that must be respected, but his business is his own.
For a French head of state what is more important than English prudery is that he be seen as in control. This in no small way was Louis XVI's problem. His early failure to consummate his marriage to Marie-Antoinette paved the way to attacks against the queen. Those attacks of adultery and lewd and lascivious behavior are pretty much the one's used by the French Revolution to murder MA. But prior to that event by attacking the queen it was also a direct charge against the king. How could a man master France if he cannot control his own private life?
François Mitterrand, had two families a fact that was covered up until he was nearly dead. Even then the whole thing was orchestrated like something out of the time of the Bourbons. The wife and her children would visit M. Mitterrand in the hospital then leave by one door. Then in came the mistress and her child via another. His Secret Family : People.com
Indeed French presidents have long had a string of mistresses and or otherwise behaved like the Bourbon kings.
So what is different this time? Well fresh off pushing gay marriage though in France (something that didn't go down well with everyone), the country is going down the loo fiscally. Many of the promises regarding the economy which brought Hollande into office have not only failed to occur but things are getting worse. Amid all this M. Hollande is seen creeping from his mistress's bed/building on a motor scooter just as the sun is rising.
It is the whole perception thing all over again. At a time when M. Hollande is telling the French they must take some bitter medicine in order for France to become well, M. le President apparently cannot control his own lusts.
"English prudery"? who are the actual prudes here ? those who are transparent about the lives of the Mighty, or those who hide it behind antidemocratic secrecy laws? the hypocrites in this kind of affairs, in my book, are the French.
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