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President Sarkozy's son Jean Sarkozy speaks to the press in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris. Photograph: Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images Jean Sarkozy tossed back his trademark blond mane, gripped my arm in his famous touchy-feely style and earnestly ...

From ANGELIQUE CHRISAFIS, Guardian Unlimited,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jean Sarkozy,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  Jean Christophe,  Jacques Chirac,  Ancien

French wife's exposé of MP's affairs

Eric Besson with his wife Sylvie, at their home in Donzere. Photograph: Eric Robert/VIP Production/Corbis France has long defended politicians' right to keep their bedroom antics out of the public eye. But this week marks a landmark in the growing ...

From ANGELIQUE CHRISAFIS, Guardian Unlimited,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nicolas Sarkozy,  Jacques Chirac

Nuclear physicist in terror arrest

French police have arrested an engineer who worked at Cern, Europe's Switzerland-based nuclear research organisation, on suspicion that he had links to al-Qaida in Algeria. One of two French-Algerian brothers, aged 25 and 32, arrested yesterday in ...

From ANGELIQUE CHRISAFIS, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  CERN

Critics cry nepotism over Sarkozy's son

Jean Sarkozy is tipped to head the development agency for La Défense. Photograph: Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images The Sarkozy dynasty was embroiled in another nepotism row today , after the French president's 23-year-old son Jean was tipped to ...

From ANGELIQUE CHRISAFIS, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jean Sarkozy,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  Patrick Devedjian

Mitterrand admits paying 'boys' for sex

The French culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, last night faced calls for his resignation over an autobiography published four years ago in which he described paying "young boys" for sex while travelling abroad. Mitterrand was the first major ...

From ANGELIQUE CHRISAFIS, Guardian Unlimited,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Roman Polanski,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  Jean-Marie Le Pen

Carla Bruni's website crashes under demand

French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy performs during the Mandela Day. Photograph: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has already appeared in videoed online interviews calling her French president husband her "darling", introducing their ...

From ANGELIQUE CHRISAFIS, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy,  Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc

'Chemical castration' on French agenda

France is considering forcing some sex offenders to undergo chemical castration after a public outcry over the murder of a jogger by a rapist who had recently been released from prison. The prime minister, François Fillon, said the government was ...

From ANGELIQUE CHRISAFIS, Guardian Unlimited,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nicolas Sarkozy

de Villepin denies plotting Nicolas Sarkozy smear

Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin today denied orchestrating a smear plot in 2004 to damage Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential chances. Villepin is accused of complicity in slander in a trial that centres on a fake list of crooked bank ...

From ANGELIQUE CHRISAFIS, Guardian Unlimited,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Nicolas Sarkozy,  Dominique de Villepin

Dati 'staged circus around birth'

Once she was Nicolas Sarkozy's political poster girl: France's first high-ranking woman minister of north African origin. But despite Rachida Dati's fall from political grace and exile to the European parliament from where she is vowing to run for ...

From ANGELIQUE CHRISAFIS, Guardian Unlimited,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Nicolas Sarkozy,  Rachida Dati

Magritte painting stolen at gunpoint

Two men, one armed with what appeared to be a pistol, stole Magritte's 1948 painting Olympia. Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters A painting by the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte was stolen from a small Brussels museum this morning by two ...

From ANGELIQUE CHRISAFIS, Guardian Unlimited,  24 Sep 2009

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