French President Nicolas Sarkozy married former model Carla Bruni on Saturday at the Elysee Palace, according to the official who performed the ceremony.
Puts to rest media speculation whether Sarkozy was ‘serious’ about relationship
PARIS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy married former model Carla Bruni on Saturday at the Elysee Palace, according to the official who performed the ceremony. “The bride wore white; she was ravishing, as usual,” Francois Lebel, mayor of Paris’ eighth arrondissement, or neighbourhood, told Europe-1 Radio.
“The groom wasn’t bad either.” It was a historic occasion, “the first time in the history of the Republic that a president has gotten married in office.”
Sarkozy, 53, and Bruni, 40, were married in the presence of about 20 close family and friends. Lebel called the ceremony “a moment of family intimacy for the young newlyweds, of great simplicity and apparently a lot of affection between the spouses”.
Under French law, couples must tie the knot before a mayor to make their union official. Sarkozy’s openness about his private life has surprised many French, accustomed to presidents who keep their love lives under wraps.
At a news conference in January, Sarkozy revealed that the relationship was “serious” and hinted that wedding plans were in the works. But he refused to reveal the date for a wedding, saying only that France might learn about the nuptials once they had already taken place.
The wedding was the third for Sarkozy, who has three children. It was the first for Bruni, an Italian-born heiress who had a major modeling career and a well-publicized lovelife. Bruni, now a singer, dated rockers Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, tycoon Donald Trump and actor Vincent Perez. She has a young son, Aurelien, from a relationship with philosophy professor Raphael Enthoven.
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