Ségolène Royal was the first woman from a major political party to run for President of France. She was the first French cabinet minister to give birth while in office. And now she has become the first French political figure to break up with her boyfriend – Socialist party head Francois Hollande, her concubin, according to French law, and the father of her four children – on the public airwaves.
“I’ve proposed to Francois Hollande that he live his life on his own, and he has accepted..."
Oddly, this story was juxtaposed on the NY Times Blog page with a piece by Dick Cavett, entitled "Virginity, Lost."
And with that, I'll leave off an overfull morning of blogging.
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