French presidential affair - torn between 2 women

Gotta love the French!

A new book dishes the dirt on the bitter feud between President Hollande’s former partner Ségolène Royal and first lady Valérie Trierweiler. The juicy details of the drama threaten to engulf France’s president and have the French public hooked.

Entre Deux Feux (Between Two Fires), hit book stores on August 29, 2012.

BACKGROUND TO THE LOVE TRIANGLE

Although never married, François Hollande and Ségolene Royal were together for almost 30 years and had four children. Valérie Trierweiler, a reporter with the French weekly Paris Match, began trailing the political couple after she was assigned to cover the Socialist Party for her magazine in the 1990s. Hollande and Royal split in 2007 shortly after her failed presidential bid. Hollande admitted in 2010 that he was in a relationship with Trierweiler, but she recently revealed that they began their affair as early as 2005. In 2012, Hollande provocatively called Trierweiler La femme de ma vie (the love of my life). here's the rest of the story