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...British tabloids gave rave reviews for her good manners at Buckingham Palace. She charmed David Letterman and swung by the Today show to sing a love ballad penned for her husband, "Le President." Most importantly, Carla Bruni, a.k.a. Madame Nicolas Sarkozy, has won over the skeptical French public with a well-calibrated Gallic mix of dynamism and demure. Still, the First Lady of France has a major public relations problem on her hands, in the last place you might have guessed: her native Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's First Lady Carla Bruni: A Traitor to Italy? | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

Even more embarrassing was Sarkozy's subsequent decision to cancel a post-Olympic meeting with the Dalai Lama in France. Though the French President initially said that "it's not up to China to fix my agenda", he wound up declining and sent his wife Carla Bruni and Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Kouchner instead. By the time the day of the meeting rolled around, the French press was reporting that the Dalai Lama had become so disgusted at Sarkozy's cave-in that the Tibetan leader feigned an illness to avoid having to greet the Plan B delegation. (In vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why China Keeps Picking on Sarkozy | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...Often I find that I am pleased to have become French.' CARLA BRUNI-SARKOZY, Italian-born wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, reacting to Berlusconi's remark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Sunday, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the Italian-born wife of the French President said Berlusconi's comment made her "pleased to have become French." Otherwise, however, the incident has predictably blown over within diplomatic circles. Berlusconi's aides said that he'd received a friendly call over the weekend from Obama, who was making the telephone rounds with world leaders, and that the Moscow comments were not mentioned. What could anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Berlusconi Loves a Good Gaffe | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...pictures of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Anarchists Charged With Rail Sabotage | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

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