It’s good to see that just because someone is a powerful, political figure they’re not afraid to get divorced while being in power. Usually when a marriage breaks down and one of the parties is a Prime Minister or President they’ll keep it quite and carry on with a sham of a marriage in order to save face.

However the French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Cecilia have announced their divorce, after a lengthy 11 years of incarceration. French leaders are known for having extramarital affairs, as you’d expect from the French, but this the first time that any French couple have divorced while one of them was in power.

Lawyer Michele Cahen said in an interview with French radio:

They were heard by a judge and the judge granted their divorce. It went very well. There was not the slightest difficulty.

Clive Bellmore