Finalment!

I'll spare you further French but I am screaming with laughter at the newest   gossip from there.  Hollande, the President of France visits his mistress on a MOPED.  He is 59 years old!  How hilarious is that?  Whoa - Hell's Angel redux!

The current "First Dame" de France (she's acknowledged as first lady despite being only a mistress of some standing and length of time on the job) ran away to lodge herself in a hospital (in mid-Paris) when the news came out that Hollande has been romancing a movie star (40-something with two children from a previous marriage.)  He now wants to get serious with her - marriage?  Another liaison?   Who knows.  What is well known is that the hospitalized First Dame is the reason Hollande's first marriage to Segolin Royal (mother of his four children) was broken up.

It's really unusual for the French to get upset about a politician's private life (which is what they consider it.)  Apparently our scandals - John Edwards, Anthony (unfortunately named) Wiener, etc. have  infiltrated their thinking...

Vive, America!