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Tuesday 16th March 2010
I got a curious email today purporting to be from a member of the inner circle of Chantal Jouanno, the 40-year-old French ecology minister whom Nicolas Sarkozy is alleged to be having an affair with. "We don't know each other, but I was personally anxious to thank you ... for being the only one to have said, to [have] written your doubt about the affair," it began. This was a reference to a blog I wrote last week in which I wondered whether the "affair" was an invention that had been cooked up by Sarkozy's communication staff in the wake of rumours about Carla Bruni's involvement with Benjamin Biolay, a musician six years her junior:
[Snip] It seems like a clever bit of spin control, a damage-limitation exercise dreamt up the French president's PR man. Sarkozy knew the story of his wife's affair was about to break, so, on the advice of his PR man, he invented the fact that he's having an affair as well in order to save face. In the eyes of the French electorate, Sarkozy the Swordsman cuts a more appealing figure than Sarkozy the Cuckold. Poor Ms Jouanno has been ordered to take a bullet for him. [Snip.]
The sender of the email asked me for a phone number on which he could contact me and we subsequently had a 15-minute conversation. I promised not to identify him, other than to say he's a close ally of Ms Jouanno's. (To read more, click here.)
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@itsmotherswork Actually English Free Schools are closer to US Charter Schools than Swedish Free Schools (6 hours ago)
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