Ah, oui...

Just yesterday, I was reading an article about the new President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, divorced his 2nd wife (pictured below), who is a real class act and handling the press like a pro. Thought it was interesting that the couple waited until post-election to air their marital troubles.


(Life imitates art, if you've seen The Valet.) But it looks like the President had a chickie waiting in the wings, according to People mag:

Mother knows best: "My daughter is living a true love story," Carla Bruni's mother, Marisa Borini, tells France's Le Parisien for its front page Sunday, about the ex-supermodel's relationship with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. ... Earlier this month, Borini told Italian news outlets that her daughter had received a marital proposal from Sarkozy – with a New Year's acceptance deadline. ...To say the couple's rapid romance has been a coup de foudre (stroke of lightning) is an understatement. The 52-year-old Sarkozy, divorced from his second wife Cecilia in mid-October, has been inseparable from Bruni, 39, since Nov. 23, when he met the former supermodel-turned-singer-songwriter at a Paris dinner party. [people]

Can you picture something like this happening in the USA? Our heads would explode. In case you're interested to see what the President's gotten himself into... well, take a gander at this:

...Yeah, that's first lady material.