Francois Hollande gives up the Riviera Brégançon Fortress

The Brégançon fortress, perched on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Mediterranean, will from next year be thrown open to the public as one of France's  national monuments. It has been a summer retreat since the time of de Gaulle. His partner Valérie Trierweiler was said to have found Brégançon, a military fortress for centuries before de Gaulle turned it into an official residence in 1968,  too exposed to paparazzi cameras. All part of cost cutting measures saving 200,000 euros a year on staffing costs. 

Within days of coming to power in May last year, he cut his own and his ministers' pay by 30 per cent.

In June this year the Elysee sold off more than a thousand bottles from its wine cellar and used the proceeds to buy less expensive wine, with the surplus going back into the state coffers.

The public auction of the wines saw brought in 718,000 euros, nearly three times the estimated price.

Still described by many ( I am sure there will have been an ifop poll to support the claim) as the most unpopular President ever, what more can he do he must wonder?

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