Editorial in the Independent: Call me Jackie... OK Carla - but does that make Sarko the new JFK?
Carla B says that she would like to be considered as the new Jackie K. France's first lady, who is still Italian and not yet French, says in an interview this week that her principal role model is an American, Jackie Kennedy.
Carla also says that she would never allow herself to be photographed ladling out soup for her husband at the Elysée Palace, as France's first post-war First Lady, Yvonne de Gaulle, was.
Instead, for an exclusive photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz forVanity Fair magazine, which hits the stands on 1 August, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy climbs onto the roof of the Elysée Palace in a stunning, blood-red, strapless dress. She is portrayed, beautiful as ever, her hair trailing in the Paris breeze, the Eiffel Tower in the distance, sauntering sexily down the stepped roof of the palace as if she were on the catwalk, or the stage at a pop concert. Tante (Aunt) Yvonne de Gaulle, it is fair to assume, rarely climbed onto the roof of the Elysée Palace. It is doubtful too that she ever wore a blood-red, strapless dress.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy continues to take French public life into startlingly new territory – some might say alarmingly new. Her third folk-pop album, now in its third week at the top of the French charts, contains explicit references to sex and drugs of a kind which would have been banned in France two decades ago. This summer, the words of "Tu es ma came" (You are my dope) can be heard on every beach and in every camping site and traffic jam in France – sung by the President's wife.
Most people don't seem to mind very much though. Carla's opinion ratings are floating in the mid to high 60s. Has she become her husband's greatest political weapon, as the profile-interview in Vanity Fair claims? Hardly. Or at least not yet.
President Sarkozy remains stubbornly unpopular. The morale of French households slumped last month to its lowest level in more than two decades. The people of France, who were suspicious at first, have come to admire Carla Bruni-Sarkozy – her beauty, her cheek, her self-assurance, her good manners. None of that seems to have helped her husband very much. His popularity rating remains mired in the 30s or low 40s.
There are even whispers – nothing more substantial – that the President is growing tired of Carlamania. He is not a man who likes to share the limelight.
John F Kennedy famously said on his first visit to France as US President that he was simply the "man who came to Paris with Jackie Kennedy". Will Nicolas Sarkozy – the man who became President among such high hopes and contradictory messages 14 months ago – come mostly to be remembered as the man who occupied the Elysée Palace with Carla Bruni?..
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Carla also says that she would never allow herself to be photographed ladling out soup for her husband at the Elysée Palace, as France's first post-war First Lady, Yvonne de Gaulle, was.
Instead, for an exclusive photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz forVanity Fair magazine, which hits the stands on 1 August, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy climbs onto the roof of the Elysée Palace in a stunning, blood-red, strapless dress. She is portrayed, beautiful as ever, her hair trailing in the Paris breeze, the Eiffel Tower in the distance, sauntering sexily down the stepped roof of the palace as if she were on the catwalk, or the stage at a pop concert. Tante (Aunt) Yvonne de Gaulle, it is fair to assume, rarely climbed onto the roof of the Elysée Palace. It is doubtful too that she ever wore a blood-red, strapless dress.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy continues to take French public life into startlingly new territory – some might say alarmingly new. Her third folk-pop album, now in its third week at the top of the French charts, contains explicit references to sex and drugs of a kind which would have been banned in France two decades ago. This summer, the words of "Tu es ma came" (You are my dope) can be heard on every beach and in every camping site and traffic jam in France – sung by the President's wife.
Most people don't seem to mind very much though. Carla's opinion ratings are floating in the mid to high 60s. Has she become her husband's greatest political weapon, as the profile-interview in Vanity Fair claims? Hardly. Or at least not yet.
President Sarkozy remains stubbornly unpopular. The morale of French households slumped last month to its lowest level in more than two decades. The people of France, who were suspicious at first, have come to admire Carla Bruni-Sarkozy – her beauty, her cheek, her self-assurance, her good manners. None of that seems to have helped her husband very much. His popularity rating remains mired in the 30s or low 40s.
There are even whispers – nothing more substantial – that the President is growing tired of Carlamania. He is not a man who likes to share the limelight.
John F Kennedy famously said on his first visit to France as US President that he was simply the "man who came to Paris with Jackie Kennedy". Will Nicolas Sarkozy – the man who became President among such high hopes and contradictory messages 14 months ago – come mostly to be remembered as the man who occupied the Elysée Palace with Carla Bruni?..