French first lady gives her new album to ministers

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

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...