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French president marries former model Carla Bruli
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy married former model Carla Bruni on Saturday at the Elysee Palace, tying the knot less than three months after they reportedly first met.
In a terse statement, the couple said only that they "were married this morning in the presence of their families in the strictest privacy." The official statement followed an announcement of the wedding several hours earlier from the official who had performed the ceremony at the presidential Elysee Palace.
"The bride wore white; she was ravishing, as usual," Francois Lebel, mayor of Paris' eighth arrondissement, or neighborhood, told Europe-1 radio. "The groom wasn't bad either."
Sarkozy, 53, and Bruni, 40, were married in the presence of about 20 close family and friends, Lebel said. He called the ceremony "a moment of family intimacy for the young newlyweds, of great simplicity and apparently a lot of affection between the spouses.
"I wished them a lot of happiness," he said.
Under French law, couples must tie the knot before a mayor to make their union official. Sarkozy was not the first French president to marry in office: Gaston Doumergue tied the knot at the Elysee Palace in 1931.
Sarkozy's openness about his private life has surprised many French, accustomed to presidents who keep their love lives under wraps.
At a news conference in January, Sarkozy revealed that the relationship was "serious" and hinted that wedding plans were in the works. But he refused to reveal the date for a wedding, saying only that France might learn about the nuptials once they had already taken place.
The couple went public with their relationship during a visit to Disneyland Paris, and they carried out their brief but highly publicized courtship in such places as the ruins of Petra, Jordan. The tabloids even showed the couple at an Egyptian beach resort, Bruni in a tiny black bikini, Sarkozy in orange trunks and Ray-Ban sunglasses in photos.
Sarkozy's approval ratings dropped during their courtship — in part, analysts say, because many older, more traditional voters were put off by his glitzy, jet-setting style.
The wedding was the third for Sarkozy, who has three children. He ended his 11-year marriage with Cecilia in October last year.
(Agencies) |
上周六，法國總統薩科奇與相識不到三個月的前超級模特卡拉?布魯尼在愛麗舍宮完婚。
總統夫婦在一份簡短聲明中說，他們“已于今天（周六）上午在家人的見證下秘密完婚”。該正式聲明發表幾小時前，在愛麗舍宮為總統主持婚禮的一位官員公布了兩人舉行婚禮的消息。
巴黎第八區區長弗朗西斯?勒貝爾在接受“歐洲第一電臺”的采訪時說：“新娘身穿潔白婚紗，和平時一樣迷人。新郎看起來也不錯。”
勒貝爾說，53歲的薩科奇和40歲的布魯尼在大約20名親朋好友的見證下完婚。他說結婚儀式“充滿了家庭溫暖，雖然十分簡單，但卻飽含了兩人的濃情蜜意”。
他說：“愿他們幸福美滿。”
根據法國法律，新人舉行婚禮必須有市長見證，才可正式結為合法夫妻。薩科奇并不是法國歷史上首位在任職期間結婚的總統——1931年，法國前任總統加斯頓?杜梅洛在愛麗舍宮結婚。
在法國，總統的愛情生活一直被視為“不能說的秘密”，而薩科奇總統對于私生活的開放態度則讓很多法國人十分吃驚。
在今年1月的一次新聞發布會上，薩科奇透露他與布魯尼的戀情是“認真的”，并暗示兩人正在籌劃婚禮。但他拒絕透露婚禮的具體日期，只是說可能在婚禮后才會公布消息。
薩科奇與布魯尼的戀情在兩人一同去巴黎的迪斯尼樂園游玩時被曝光。之后，兩人前往約旦的佩特拉古城等地游玩，他們的關系進展神速，并受到廣泛關注。法國一些小報甚至曝出兩人在埃及海灘度假地的照片，照片中的布魯尼身著黑色緊身比基尼，薩科奇則穿著橘色泳褲，戴著一副雷朋太陽鏡。
薩科奇與布魯尼交往期間支持率大跌，分析人士認為，其中一部分原因是很多年齡較大、較傳統的民眾不滿薩科奇浮華、不羈的生活方式。
這是薩科奇總統的第三次婚姻。薩科奇有三個孩子，他于去年10月與塞西莉亞結束了維持11年的婚姻。
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（英語點津姍姍編輯）
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