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French first lady gives her new album to ministers
2008-07-29
PARIS (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's pop star wife Carla gave a copy of her new album to every government minister after their last meeting Monday before the summer holidays, a minister said. Budget Minister Eric Woerth left the meeting with Sarkozy at the Elysee palace with the CD under his arm and told reporters he thought it was a "very good album". The album by supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, "Comme Si De Rien N'Etait" (Simply), sparked frenzied media coverage when it came out this month, but also an outpouring of vitriol on the Internet by French voters hostile to the right-wing Sarkozy. It features 14 songs including the "Ma Came," a love song that draws a parallel between drug addiction and love, and "Ta Tienne" (Yours) which appears to hint at Bruni's romance with Sarkozy. Bruni, who married Sarkozy in February after a whirlwind three-month romance, plans to donate revenues from the album sales to charity. Her first record wowed both critics and the public in 2002, selling two million copies, but her second, which put the words of English poets to music, did less well, with 380,000 copies sold.
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