“The concept of the first lady doesn’t exist in France, and even less the first mistress,†sniffed Olivier de Rohan, a vicomte and head of a foundation that protects French art. “The protocol in France is very strict. It is not a question of choice or pleasure. The wife of the president of the republic was always seated as the wife, never paraded as the first lady. I don’t care with whom Hollande sleeps. But the whole thing is totally ridiculous, the head of a great state exhibiting mistresses, one after the other.â€
Or as one French journalist murmured, “All this, in the place where de Gaulle was.â€
Over good wine and small portions across Paris, there was appalled discussion that Stephen Colbert, who had filleted Hollande’s shenanigans on his show, was seated to the right of Michelle Obama at the state dinner, in the magic circle with the president where Trierweiler would have been, had she not been trundled off to the love guillotine.
“In France, it would be extremely rude to do that,†Rohan said about Colbert. “The Americans have no protocol.â€
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