"This explains why the purveyor of all this smut, Valérie Trierweiler, is perhaps even more unpopular than the president. She's being attacked on all sides –by left and right, male and female. Front National leader, Marine Le Pen, called her book "indecent" and "a dishonour to France". Female Le Monde columnists Françoise Fressoz and Pascale Robert-Diard were no less punishing: "Valérie Trierweiler is trying with this book to repair her image… as the hysteric, the husband thief, the vengeful woman."
How to explain the vehemence of these attacks? Trierweiler has broken a fundamental principle of French political life, an unwritten law inherited from the Ancien Régime and perpetuated by France's revolutionary nomenklatura, that the private life – and by that I mean sex life – of a public figure must remain inviolable.
Because she has broken this rule she is loathed. Not so much for her explosive personality, which, had it stayed out of the papers, would have been whispered in the corridors of power as fiery and passionate as opposed to hysterical and vindictive, but for having broken this sacred taboo. And the violation is all the more painful because it strikes at the very heart of a moral code that makes France so gloriously different from other western societies."
Val says this is part of a very interesting review of Valerie Trierweiler's book in the Guardian by Lucy Wadham who lives in the Cevennes and writes about France
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/06/francois-hollande-valerie-trierweiler-new-book-controversy
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/06/francois-hollande-valerie-trierweiler-new-book-controversy
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