Gallic Stereo-Typical Games of Seduction between Two Wild Beasts

Do you Deduce to Seduce?
Retrieved by Pat Darnell

The story of Nicolas Sarkozy's seduction of Carla Bruni has been widely reported in the British press (probably more than in France). This is from the Daily Telegraph:

However unpopular he may be among his own countrymen, Nicolas Sarkozy is, to English eyes, the perfect Frenchman. Small, oversexed and power-crazed, he could hardly be more Gallic if he tucked one arm into his overcoat and donned a tricolour cockade.

And now the coup de grace: even his seduction technique conforms to the national stereotype. The transcript of his first meeting with Carla Bruni was published this week - to insouciance shrugs on that side of the Channel, and squeals of incredulity over here.

Jacques Séguéla, a French advertising guru, had invited the supermodel to a dinner party as a treat for Sarkozy, whose wife had just left him. In his memoir Séguéla describes the evening as "a game of seduction between two wild beasts". Read full story >>