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French president Sarkozy marries Carla Bruni
Source: BI-ME , Author: Justin Smith
Posted: Sat February 2, 2008 12:00 am
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INTERNATIONAL. French President Nicolas Sarkozy married his girl friend of three months, former model Carla Bruni on Saturday, according to the official who married them.

Official confirmation came not from the Élysée but from the mayor of the eighth arrondissement, who officiated at the ceremony; the presidential palace is in that district.

“I married two voters of the eighth arrondissement district who live at 55 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré,” Mayor François Lebel told Europe I radio, giving the Élysée’s address.

Clearly enjoying his sudden celebrity, Lebel added: “The bride was in white. She was ravishing as usual. But the bridegroom wasn’t bad either.”

About 20 family members and close friends witnessed the ceremony, which Lebel described later in a telephone interview as “intimate, warm and familial.”

Nicolas Bazire, who heads the private investment company of the French billionaire Bernard Arnault, was the witness for Sarkozy. Mathilde Agostinelli, head of communications for Prada France (and a close friend of Sarkozy’s second wife, Cécilia), was the witness for Bruni, RTL radio reported on its website.

In the last two months, President Sarkozy’s popularity has dropped precipitously, both because of his failure to revive France’s ailing economy and what has been called the 'Carla effect'.

The exceptionally tolerant French did not seem bothered that Sarkozy’s 11-year marriage ended in divorce in October, after his wife left him. But his very public relationship with Bruni, an Italian-born heiress who has been linked romantically with a variety of men struck many of the French as lacking taste.

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