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French president splits with partner after affair
AFP/Yahoo ^ | 1/25/2014 | Sylvie Maligorne

Posted on 01/25/2014 3:23:26 PM PST by RightGeek

Paris (AFP) - French President Francois Hollande on Saturday told AFP he has split with his longstanding partner Valerie Trierweiler after his affair with an actress nearly 20 years his junior.

The announcement came after a day of rumours in the French media that Hollande would formally announce the rupture on Saturday, on the eve of a visit by Trierweiler to India for charity work.

Saying he was speaking as a private individual and not as head of state as the matter concerned his private life, Hollande told AFP over the phone: "I wish to make it known that I have ended my partnership with Valerie Trierweiler."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: europeanunion; france; francoishollande; gayet; hollande; juliegayet; royal; segoleneroyal; socialist; trierweiler; valerietrierweiler
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When's Obammy going to announce he is dumping Michelle in favor of Reggie?
1 posted on 01/25/2014 3:23:26 PM PST by RightGeek
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To: RightGeek
do they have palimony in frogland???
2 posted on 01/25/2014 3:30:00 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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"Trierweiler's reputation suffered, with many deeming her somewhat arrogant. A recent poll said she was the least-liked French First Lady in modern history.

"French glossy Closer broke news of Hollande's affair with Gayet on January 10, splashing photos of a man resembling Hollande arriving for alleged trysts at a flat near the Elysee Palace on a scooter."

Striking parallels with the current residents of 1600 Pennsylvania. "Least-liked first lady." Yeah, we've got that.

The president tooling around town on a scooter? Hilarious. Aren't there photos of obama doing that? So where was he going that day?!

3 posted on 01/25/2014 3:31:43 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Chode

It would be cool if she got to keep the Presidential palace and kicked him out.


4 posted on 01/25/2014 3:33:32 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

Dommage a` Trois


5 posted on 01/25/2014 3:38:01 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: RightGeek

The guy’s a train wreak!


6 posted on 01/25/2014 3:38:28 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: RightGeek
now THAT would be funny...
7 posted on 01/25/2014 3:40:23 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: RightGeek

Now his former girl friend is a nobody again, just another Mademoiselle, mais pas tres jeune.


8 posted on 01/25/2014 3:43:36 PM PST by lee martell
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To: RightGeek

He cheated on somebody else with her, what made her think he wouldn’t eventually do the same to her.


9 posted on 01/25/2014 3:44:40 PM PST by dfwgator
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I wonder if Valerie will go motor-mouth on Hollande? Surely, she has plenty to tell.
10 posted on 01/25/2014 3:48:58 PM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: RightGeek

“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”


11 posted on 01/25/2014 3:50:26 PM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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Exactly. What in the world did she expect, especially with them not being married? Making this situation public right before the “estranged” departs for India, it seems like he might have a big rendezvous planned with the new one.


12 posted on 01/25/2014 3:52:17 PM PST by fivecatsandadog (If you want to know who rules over you, find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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he has split with his longstanding partner Valerie Trierweiler after his affair with an actress nearly 20 years his junior

I didn't know that you could cheat on a person you're not married to.

13 posted on 01/25/2014 3:53:10 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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From Wikipedia:

From the late 1970s, Ségolène Royal was the partner of François Hollande, now President of France, whom she met at ENA. The couple had four children.

They were neither married (considering it too "bourgeois" nor bound by a PACS (pacte civil de solidarité, which provides for a civil union between two adults, regardless of gender), contrary to the rumors.

14 posted on 01/25/2014 3:55:18 PM PST by csvset
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Sick people.


15 posted on 01/25/2014 3:55:53 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

I didn’t know that you could cheat on a person you’re not married to.


It’s shacking up... can a frog have a red-neck?...
Who gets the trailer?..


16 posted on 01/25/2014 3:58:24 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Chode

I think that happened in Maryland at the governor’s compound.


17 posted on 01/25/2014 4:03:47 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: hosepipe

What’s the French equivalent of Arkansas? My guess is a place on the south side of the Mediterranean where the locals speak French.


18 posted on 01/25/2014 4:05:55 PM PST by ptsal (Repubicans swallowing more kool-aide from Rove & Kristol)
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To: dfwgator
Sick people.

We're catching up, fast.

19 posted on 01/25/2014 4:11:31 PM PST by Praxeologue
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To: Paladin2
good, it shouldn't make any difference where they live, same-same
20 posted on 01/25/2014 4:16:11 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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