François Hollande sounds very much like the man Valérie Trierweiler fell in love with. Philandering liar lies? Quelle surprise
I met a sex therapist last week. For professional reasons, I should probably add. He told me that women only become interested in pornography when there's a storyline, and that storyline is always the same: beautiful woman meets the bad boy with just a glint of gold, and sets out to redeem him through the power of her love. "That's Fifty Shades," he said. "That's Twilight. That's True Blood." That's also, he could have added, Thank You for the Moment, the bombshell masquerading as a book by former French first lady Valérie Trierweiler, published in the UK next week. "I should have known he was lying," says Trierweiler of her former lover François Hollande. "I'd caught him telling fibs in the past." But she thought their love was "unbreakable". How quickly, she muses, "a fairytale can unravel".
The book appears to be a string of breathless cliches, laced with enough venom to sink a government, let alone one pompous narcissist who seems to have constructed an entire career around a fragile ego. Hollande sounds as appealing as Trierweiler, and about as talented in his chosen field. He also sounds very much like the man Trierweiler says she fell in love with. Philandering liar lies? Quelle surprise.
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