Il a une liaison avec un actrice.

[LibraryBook]

We are in France.

This is such a deplorable mess. We are not married but live together in an apartment that comes as a perk of his job. He has four children from a previous marriage. I have three children from a previous relationship. The actrice has two children from a previous relationship.

Does anyone have any advice?

[coffeeinbed]

Hold on Vince, I'm getting here.
Trop de L'AFs.

[Jaffacakesallround]

This is all highly amusing but...being a tiny bit serious, is there more to the hospital stay than we are being told?
Is it an overdose situation or similar? why would anyone be admitted for 'rest' unless there was more to it?

[coffeeinbed]

There's not much in the French papers either, JaffaCakes.

[coffeeinbed]

According to Le Figaro she's been prescribed some sleep therapy for the next 12 days or so.
I do feel sorry for her.

[EverybodysStressyEyed]

i wonder too

she has such a reputation for being a manipulator that I think a lot of people think this is all a ploy to win sympanthy

however, her treatment of segolene suggests she is an incredibly jealous and insecure person wrt her relationship (not unfounded as it would seem) and perhaps she isn't mentally in the right place at the moment

regardless, i hope the press leave her alone for now and just focus on the twerp!

[Thisisaghostlyeuphemism]

Sleep therapy? Cest un peu bizarre, non.

I wouldn't like her as my enemy- I hope she has loads of stuff on him.

(thats not v nice, is it. Desolee)

[LibraryBook]

Hmmm. I hope she's OK.

He is a scoundrel. I suspect he's told her it's over. And her public declaration of being willing to forgive him and asking him to clarify her position via the media is a means of manipulation. Perhaps she can't go home from l'hopital because she doesn't have a home?

[manaboutthemaison]

quelle bordelle, actuellement je m'en fou !

[Loopytiles]

Do nous pensons qu'il as un grand grande sense d'entitlement?

As 'as been dit upthread, il resemble un pomme de terre.

[Loopytiles]

le mot en francais pour "scoundrel"?

[Lweji]

scélérat
crapule
coquin

Coquin sounds quite right ;)

[Motherinlawsdung]

Sleep therapy?
The French have cures and illnesses that don't exist elsewhere:
Suppositories
Something called "heavy legs"
La grippe
Mental illness caused by Le Mistral
Etc etc

[Jaffacakesallround]

Interesting how French women react to these things, compared with the English- we just cut the arms off their suits or empty their wine cellars. None of this sloping off to hospital for a 'rest'.

[PetiteRaleuse]

Suppositories exist elsewhere. And la grippe is the flu.

Never got my head round heavy leg syndrome though :o

I only ever experienced the Mistral once but I understand that it could play on your nerves. It's strange.

[PetiteRaleuse]

I'm assuming she's had a breakdown. This must be massively humiliating for her and there is very little sympathy for her. I feel sorry for her - she might not be a nice person but he shouldn't treat her like that. What a cunt.

I assume Segolene is having a well deserved chuckle at the whole sorry saga though.

[LibraryBook]

It will be interesting to see how the press conference goes today.

[PetiteRaleuse]

Yes. On French TV yesterday there was a report interviewing some of the top French political journalists, none of whom would admit that they were planning on asking about it of course, but unanimously said that the question to be asked is: Is Val still first lady?

It's important because she has an office, staff, an official role (as she would if they were married too) on the public payroll. If they were married though no-one would be asking the question.

[dreamingbohemian]

My favourite bit in all this so far is the rumour that they shacked up in a flat belonging to the Corsican mafia. He's so just trying to be interesting.

Morris the solution to your problem is Brittany

[LibraryBook]

I suppose because a marriage ends via the issue of public document (the decree nisi thn the decree absolute in England & Wales, the French will have a similar equivalent) whereas a live-in relationship has no formal basis, or end. I suppose the French have a right to seek clarification.

[coffeeinbed]

I do love the bit where she's ready to forgive and forget.
Whether he wants it or not...

[LeMousquetaireAnonyme]

You are right petiteraleuse.
"heavy legs" is just varicose veins when the blood pool in your ankles/calves.
"Sleep therapy" is used for mental illnesses (I am sure in the UK too just under a different name). She probably had a massive breakdown to be on it.

[PetiteRaleuse]

Am assuming sleep therapy is sophrologie which is basically meditation and mindfulness exercises.