Hollande and Trierweiler

DANIEL O. writes:

Here is another one for the books. Valérie Trierweiler, the “partner” of the French president François Hollande, has had a nervous breakdown, because the president is cheating on her with the actress Julie Gayet and the media is writing about that. Hence, the poor victimized woman, a successful journalist, had to be hospitalized. Trierweiler and Hollande started having an affair when he was still in a relationship with the socialist politician Ségolène Royal, and she was still married to Denis Trierweiler, which was by the way her second marriage. In fact, Trierweiler even was the shared mistress of the socialist Hollande and the ‘conservative’ politician Patrick Devedjian, writes The Mirror. You will reap what you sow.

Such is the couple leading the glorious revolutionary French Nation: a Clintonian President and his ‘First Girlfriend.’ Robespierre once said that virtue without terror is fatal, and terror without virtue is impotent. Clearly, he was wrong. The progressivist terror in France, such as the crackdown on la Manif pour tous, is virtueless and exactly the opposite of impotence — it is political and sexual licence.

Julie Gayet — the new First Girlfriend?

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Sue G. writes:

President François Hollande has four adult children by his long-term mistress, Ségolène Royal, a fellow politician. Royal was the 2007 Socialist candidate for president, as well as a former government minister and member of the National Assembly. Born Marie-Ségolène Royal, she dropped the “Marie” part of her name, according to Google, because “she thought it had been chosen by her father for his daughters out of a degrading and archaic view of the role of women.”

Ségolène Royal sued her father in 1972 when she was 19 “because he refused to divorce her mother [sic] and pay alimony and child support to finance the children’s education.” She finally won the case in 1981 after many years in court.

Google also  reports that Royal and Holland never married because they considered it “too bourgeois.” Nor were they bound by a pacte civil de solidarité , which I gather is the French version of a domestic partners agreement. Even that was too bourgeois, it seems.

All three of the women in President Hollande’s life–counting Julie Gayet as the latest–are very attractive, and rather similar types. Of course each is somewhat younger than her predecessor, and the last two have tended to lighten their hair, to judge from the photos I’ve seen.

Laura writes:

The great irony here is that these women consider themselves “liberated.” Trierweiler has no principle by which to object to her replacement. No wonder she’s depressed.

Laura adds:

This article has background on the relationship and Trierweiler’s role as First Girlfriend. She is not popular. Given that Trierweiler has received the privileges of a First Lady, serious questions arise as to how she should be treated in the future (should she receive security protection if they separate?). One would also think that a spurned woman presents the risk of security breaches.

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