Friday, October 21, 2011

The Good Ole French/English Mutual Hatred Society...

...is hard at work in the Telegraph's offices.

A baby at last for Carla! Quick, call the hairdresser
"The waiting is over and the First Lady can finally smoke and drink. Oh yes, and she’s had a baby, too. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, 43, who complained, with Gallic bluntness, that being pregnant was boringly abstinent, can celebrate the safe delivery of her little girl, Giulia, with a shrug and a Gitanes. And, of course, a leg wax.

Here, in Britain, the NHS tradition may be a lukewarm cup of tea and a nice cry, but in France the cutting of the umbilical chord is the signal for a woman to seize back control of her pelvic floor and squeeze back into a Chanel pencil skirt."
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"The baby is Madame Bruni-Sarkozy’s second child, so the rather hardline emphasis on immediately reclaiming her feminity and renewing conjugal relations rather than eating mille-feuilles, with cabbage leaves stuffed in her bra, won’t be entirely new to her. Her 10-year-old son, Aurélien, is the product of a previous relationship with a philosopher, which is apparently considered to be a proper job on the Continent."
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"For his part, President Sarkozy already has three sons from his previous two marriages.

And now we are told, he’s coq-a-hoop at having a daughter. She, in turn, has been trumpeted as the first baby to be born to an incumbent head of state in France since Empress Eugénie brought Louis Napoleon Bonaparte into the world 155 years ago.

This historical precedent might explain why the President left the hospital within hours of the birth for foreign parts. Ostensibly, he was attending an International Monetary Fund meeting in Frankfurt, but rumour has it he nipped over the border to Austria in his lunch hour to seal a dynastic marriage alliance with a spare Habsburg."
I must admit, though, the British woman who wrote this has quite the sense of humour when she's jealous.
"Her stern announcement that there will be no pictures was greeted with dismay. Not only is it a shame for all of us, as we want to know if (heaven forfend) she looks like daddy, but it represents a tragedy for Sarkozy père, who was quite possibly counting on a baby bounce to boost his dismal popularity ratings."
RTWT She really skewers both the Sarkozis and the French.

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2 Comments:

Blogger Dave in Pa. said...

Can anybody be more condescendingly snotty than one of the vacuous but glib English pseudo-intelligentsia?

(Well, Avi Lewis can, but he lacks even a molecule of an air of gentility. He was at his obnoxious turdesque lowest in his interview of that great lady, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.)

October 21, 2011 9:23 pm  
Blogger Louise said...

Sorry, but I've watched that "interview" too many times. I haven't got the stomach to watch it again. But I do think Hirsi Ali did a nice job of slicing and dicing him. But I'm afraid he didn't feel it.

He quit CBC shortly after and went to Al Jazeera. Better home for him, anyway.

I often wonder if he was pushed out. I'm sure CBC got piles of complaints, not that that would ever faze him or the CBC.

October 22, 2011 4:02 pm  

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