People : 22nd September

Cécilia returns to puncture Sarkozy’s pomp. Matthew Campbell, The Times (en)
" ... According to Cécilia, Attias, 48, was told on the day of their marriage that his services were no longer required as an organiser of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. Klaus Schwab, the business professor who founded the forum in 1971, did not want it “to be at loggerheads with the French government”, she claimed.
“It was a nice wedding present,” said an ironic Cécilia. “Since then I have learnt that the French president will probably attend the next Davos although he had never gone before.” ... “You could hardly expect [Sarkozy] to show up in the knowledge that his former wife’s new husband is the organiser,” said the source .
.. A spokesman for the World Economic Forum denied that it had sacked Attias, describing him as simply a “subcontractor”. Mark Adams said: “We never employed him directly, so we couldn’t sack him.”

People : 15th September (en)

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ex-wife Cecilia 'betrayed' by friends. Henry Samuel, The Telegraph (en)

"... But in her Tribune interview, the new Mrs Attias shook all of this vitriol off as journalistic hyperbole. "With my divorce, people latched onto me like a hunted animal and it was hell. Eighty per cent of what was written about me was false", she said, before adding magnanimously, "they also put a lot of false words into my ex-husband's mouth".
She said she had not been prepared for the media frenzy that top flight politics brings. "Doubtless I didn't think enough about it, I didn't see that I was putting my finger in an unstoppable machine" ... "

Paris Notebook: Carla's 'sales' hit by sound of silence. John Lichfield, The Independent (en)

" ... Carla Bruni-Sarkozy appeared on France's favourite Sunday afternoon chat-show last week.
An estimated three million viewers tuned in. When Bernadette Chirac appeared on the same television show in February last year, she had an audience of 6,500,000.
Lesson: Bernadette Chirac should make an album, or even a record ..."

People : 12th September

Sarkozy's golden boy gets married . Charles Bremner, The Times (en)
"France has just notched up two royal weddings within eight months ... There were 100 guests, many from the money, politics and show-biz set that Jean and his dad frequent ... To do him justice, Sarko junior has the easy manner and the self-confidence of a born politician. He is a golden boy, tall and debonair -- a contrast with his short, dark and intense father ... "

People : 8th september (en)

London suburbs seduce Nicolas Sarkozy. Chris Gourlay and Matthew Campbell, The Times (en)
French media in a dither over minister's baby . Charles Bremner, The Times (en)
Heavy Metal Carla. Eurosoc2, EuroSoc (en)

Gossip : 3rd September

Carla Bruni's record fails to hit the bigtime. Charles Bremner, The Times (en)
"...Bruni also said that she recognised that giving the disc to every member of her husband's council of ministers for their summer listening might have been a little questionable. The gift raised media eyebrows, as did her use of the Elysée Palace roof for a cover portrait of her for Vanity Fair..."

Vanity Fair 2008

Gossip : 7th August

Fourth plinth is reserved for the Queen. James Macintyre, The Independent (en)

Gossip : 31st July

Giscard d'Estaing a victim of chateau slump. John Lichfield, The Independent (en)
I am like Jackie Kennedy says Carla Bruni. The Times (en)

Gossip : 30th July

Call me Jackie... OK Carla - but does that make Sarko the new JFK? John Lichfield, The Independent (en)

Gossip : 29th July

Bruni gives album away. The Telegraph (en)
Monsieur Sarko’s holiday. Matthew Campbell, The Times (en)
Picture kept in a drawer ‘is £100m da Vinci’. John Follain , The Times (en)
Non, Monsieur le Président. Dominique Moisi, The Guardian (en)
Debating freedom along a border beach. The Economist (en)

Gossip : 28th July

Juan Carlos and Chávez smile and make up. Mark Mulligan, The FT (en)