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Carla Bruni Sarkozy: Au revoir to France's first lady of style
Tuesday 08 May 2012
Carla Bruni Sarkozy may have her detractors but never let it be said that she doesn’t know how to dress.
Premières Dames past and present join election pantomime
Tuesday 10 April 2012
François Hollande's girlfriend is furious with President Nicolas Sarkozy. So is his former wife, Cécilia.
Diary: Is Sarkozy fit for renewal of historic hostilities?
Tuesday 25 October 2011
The regrettable spat that has erupted between our Prime Minister and the French President prompts some in the Tory ranks to excitably predict that their man would come out on top in the event of historic hostilities ever having to get physical again.
The birth of First Baby Giulia is greeted with a yawn
Friday 21 October 2011
Baby, what baby? France, or part of France, greeted the birth of President Nicolas Sarkozy's daughter with an ostentatious yawn yesterday.
France greets the birth of the First Baby with a yawn
Friday 21 October 2011
John Lichfield wonders whether Sarkozy was trying to score political points by dashing off to euro crisis talks
France's 'First Baby' arrives – after Sarko departs for summit
Thursday 20 October 2011
It's a girl, and a nation is gripped. Well, all except her father – he had the euro to take care of...
Duchess Catherine among Vanity Fair's Best Dressed
Thursday 04 August 2011
Duchess Catherine has been named one of the world's best dressed women.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy 'expecting baby'
Tuesday 17 May 2011
The expectant granddad has spilled the beans: Nicolas Sarkozy's father told Germany's top-selling newspaper that France's model-turned-singer first lady is pregnant.
Cannes confidential: A critic's-eye view of the festival news
Sunday 15 May 2011
Scandal, glamour, satires on the Pope and Sarkozy, lost masterpieces and the usual suspects: it's all go on La Croisette
Cannes Diary: From disgraced D-listers to ex-drug dealing singers, festival embraces them all
Thursday 12 May 2011
One of the less glamorous guests on the Croisette will be the disgraced pop producer Jonathan King, sentenced to seven years in prison in 2001 for sexually assaulting five teenage boys, and now reinventing himself as a film producer.
George Michael takes steps to put record straight on gay lifestyle
Thursday 12 May 2011
George Michael will record a new album with a "collective" of gay musicians, aimed at a young gay audience, as an apology for the homophobia that he believes his turbulent private life has inadvertently generated.
Cannes star prize 'up for grabs'
Wednesday 11 May 2011
The ultimate prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival is "up for grabs", according to Robert De Niro.
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