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French heads of state seem always to have been plagued by marital issues.(The Week)(Brief article)

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French heads of state seem always to have been plagued by marital issues. Recall King Robert the Pious, whose attempt to marry his cousin Bertha led to the couple's excommunication in A.D. 997, the subject of a striking painting by Jean-Paul Laurens; or the ructions over Philip Augustus's bigamous marriage to Agnes of Merania in 1196, made into a fine opera by Vincenzo Bellini; or the misfortunes of Henri IV and his poor Gabrielle. This dramatic tradition continues. France's current president, Nicolas Sarkozy, shed his second wife, Cecilia, last October, just five months after winning office. He has now wed his third, celebrity-singer-supermodel Carla Bruni, after a three-month affair. Not ...

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