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Author:  Mini Ditka [ Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:28 pm ]
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns- ... 7230.story

French President Hollande announces separation from Trierweiler

Emmanuel Jarry and Leila Abboud Reuters

6:20 a.m. CST, January 26, 2014
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande announced his separation from first lady Valerie Trierweiler on Saturday following a media storm over allegations he is having an affair with an actress.

"I wish to make it known that I have ended my partnership with Valerie Trierweiler," he told Agence France Presse news agency.

Hollande sought to put an end to turbulence that began two weeks ago when celebrity magazine Closer published a report that he was having an affair with film actress and Socialist Party supporter Julie Gayet.

Questions over Hollande's personal life - and whether Trierweiler was still first lady - have diverted public attention from a shift the president made this month towards more business-friendly policies aimed at reviving the euro zone's second-biggest economy in the face of high unemployment.

A news conference to unveil the economic plans was overshadowed by questions over Hollande's private life, as was a trip to Rome to meet the pope on Friday.

Announcing the separation, Hollande said he was speaking as an individual and not as head of state since it concerned his private life.

Trierweiler, a 48-year-old arts columnist for weekly magazine Paris Match, was not married to Hollande but they had been together since 2006. She assumed the role of first lady at official functions following his election in May 2012, and like her predecessors, maintained an office with a budget of roughly 20,000 euros per month.

TRIP TO INDIA

Trierweiler was hospitalized for eight days for fatigue after news of the affair broke, and had since been staying in a secluded secondary residence belonging to the president near Versailles. She left the house, known as la Lanterne, on Saturday afternoon, said a person close to the presidency, and would not return.

In her first public statement, Trierweiler thanked the staff of the Elysee presidential palace in a tweet. "I will never forget their devotion, nor the emotion at the time of my departure," she wrote.

Trierweiler was expected to travel to India on Sunday in honor of an anti-hunger charity, and French media reports said she may speak at a news conference there.

Hollande, 59, is the most unpopular president in modern France, according to polls. He has struggled to live up to a promise to get unemployment, currently stuck near 11 percent, firmly on a downward trend.

He has four children from a previous relationship with Segolene Royal, a senior member of his Socialist Party and a 2007 presidential candidate. Royal announced their separation just after she lost the 2007 election to Nicolas Sarkozy.

The reports of Hollande's affair have had little effect on his image and French media largely focused on Closer's unprecedented breach of presidential privacy rather than on the relationship with Gayet.

A poll by Ifop shortly after the magazine report showed that 84 percent of those surveyed had not changed their opinion about Hollande and that 77 percent considered it a private matter.

Trierweiler has been a particularly unpopular first lady, according to a BVA poll. Some 8 percent of respondents had a favorable view of her, compared to 28 percent for Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the ex-model and pop star wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, and 46 percent for Bernadette Chirac, wife of Jacques Chirac.

Author:  Chus [ Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:29 pm ]
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Author:  Darkside [ Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:33 pm ]
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They're douchebags for breaking up?

Author:  Mini Ditka [ Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:35 pm ]
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Darkside wrote:
They're douchebags for breaking up?


No, he is nominated for having a fake first lady and cheating on her who he cheated with after he split from the woman he had 4 kids with, but never married even though they were together for almost 30 years.

Author:  Darkside [ Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:37 pm ]
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Mini Ditka wrote:
Darkside wrote:
They're douchebags for breaking up?


No, he is nominated for having a fake first lady and cheating on her who he cheated with after he split from the woman he had 4 kids with, but never married even though they were together for almost 30 years.

Oh. Thanks.




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(call the police.....)

Author:  Colonel Angus [ Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:39 pm ]
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Mini Ditka wrote:
Darkside wrote:
They're douchebags for breaking up?


No, he is nominated for having a fake first lady and cheating on her who he cheated with after he split from the woman he had 4 kids with, but never married even though they were together for almost 30 years.

How was she a "fake" first lady? Nowhere is it stated that any first lady has to be the wife of the President. In fact, many U.S. Presidents had first ladies who weren't their wives.

Author:  Darkside [ Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:41 pm ]
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Colonel Angus wrote:
Mini Ditka wrote:
Darkside wrote:
They're douchebags for breaking up?


No, he is nominated for having a fake first lady and cheating on her who he cheated with after he split from the woman he had 4 kids with, but never married even though they were together for almost 30 years.

How was she a "fake" first lady? Nowhere is it stated that any first lady has to be the wife of the President. In fact, many U.S. Presidents had first ladies who weren't their wives.

Forget it, he's rolling.

Author:  Nas [ Sun Jan 26, 2014 10:00 pm ]
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Colonel Angus wrote:
Mini Ditka wrote:
Darkside wrote:
They're douchebags for breaking up?


No, he is nominated for having a fake first lady and cheating on her who he cheated with after he split from the woman he had 4 kids with, but never married even though they were together for almost 30 years.

How was she a "fake" first lady? Nowhere is it stated that any first lady has to be the wife of the President. In fact, many U.S. Presidents had first ladies who weren't their wives.


Some even married their cousins

Author:  Mini Ditka [ Sun Jan 26, 2014 10:13 pm ]
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"Douchebag" is a French term just in case you forgot.

Author:  Darkside [ Sun Jan 26, 2014 10:14 pm ]
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Mini Ditka wrote:
"Douchebag" is a French term just in case you forgot.

I don't think that it is.

Douche means shower in french but douchebag isn't a french term.
In any case, what the hell does that have to do with anything?

Author:  Mini Ditka [ Sun Jan 26, 2014 10:24 pm ]
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Darkside wrote:
Mini Ditka wrote:
"Douchebag" is a French term just in case you forgot.

I don't think that it is.

Douche means shower in french but douchebag isn't a french term.
In any case, what the hell does that have to do with anything?


douche
noun \ˈdüsh\

: a liquid that a woman squirts into her vagina to wash it; also : an object used to squirt such a liquid into the vagina
Full Definition of DOUCHE
1
a : a jet or current of liquid (as a cleansing solution) directed against or into a bodily part or cavity (as the vagina)
b : an act of cleansing with a douche
2
: a device for giving douches
3
British : an abrupt often chastening shock to the nerves, emotions, or awareness <the icy douche (what he said about my work) — John Fowles>
— douche verb
See douche defined for English-language learners »
See douche defined for kids »
Origin of DOUCHE
French,
from Italian doccia, from docciare to douche, from doccia water pipe, probably back-formation from doccione conduit, from Latin duction-, ductio means of conveying water, from ducere to lead — more at tow
First Known Use: 1766

Author:  Darkside [ Sun Jan 26, 2014 10:25 pm ]
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Mini, no disrespect intended, but do you have mental problems?

Author:  Mr. Reason [ Sun Jan 26, 2014 10:38 pm ]
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Who really gives a shit about France?

Author:  Colonel Angus [ Sun Jan 26, 2014 10:48 pm ]
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Nas wrote:
Colonel Angus wrote:
Mini Ditka wrote:
Darkside wrote:
They're douchebags for breaking up?


No, he is nominated for having a fake first lady and cheating on her who he cheated with after he split from the woman he had 4 kids with, but never married even though they were together for almost 30 years.

How was she a "fake" first lady? Nowhere is it stated that any first lady has to be the wife of the President. In fact, many U.S. Presidents had first ladies who weren't their wives.


Some even married their cousins

Only the ones from the south.

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