…
the delicious irony is that with all this money Valérie Trierweiler’s
earning from her book sales, she’ll probably be moving to London to
escape her ex-boyfriend’s tax laws
Thus quips The Daily Telegraph's
Stephen Clarke after learning that "the French bought 650,000 copies [of her revenge book], making her an instant millionaire."
Chantal Jouanno … wants to end the whole
fiasco of having First Ladies in France. No more private hairdressers,
no more chauffeurs, office staff, foreign junkets. She’s head of the
French Senate’s delegation for women’s rights, and seems to want women
to have real political jobs
rather than just being glorified political
housewives (does the word palacewife exist? It should.)
You can’t chip away at French polticians’ privileges, especially not at
the president’s own imperial lifestyle. And now that France has become
accustomed to having its regular doses of presidential reality TV, the
public wants all the scandal it can get. And in a way, it’s the best
antidote to austerity there is. For the last few days at least, no one
has been talking about the economy at all. Except to note that at least
one French person is making a fortune by selling Frenchness overseas. Vive la France, non?
