Unmarried couple cohabits in Elysee Palace in Paris

16 May, 2012

The new French President is not married. But he loves a pretty woman, Valerie Trierweller and now lives with her in the presidential palace. No eyebrows raised in France as concept of morality has undergone a sea-change.

OLD MORALITY school advocates would take umbrage as the couple didn't exchange marital vows but we inform them that they love each other more than a wedded couple would. Valerie Trierweller is the name of the pretty woman, twice married and twice divorced, who now cohabits in the Elysee Palace, the official residence of the President of France in Paris.

Her love, Francois Hollande is the new President of the Republic of France who ousted the lover boy, Sarkozy from the office and the palatial residence plus whatever legally belonged to the President of France.

The couple cohabits in the Elysee Palace as a matter of right because the male partner Hollande is the constitutionally elected President of France. Trierweller, of course, lives in the reflected glory of her lover boy and enjoys every moment of it. The world may address her as the First Lady of France but there is no constitutional provision to confer that title on her.

Trierweller lives in the Elysee Palace because President Hollande, who never tied the nuptial knot, loves to have Valerie around to boost his morale as she has been doing all along.

We the votaries of the old school of thought here in India would not approve an unmarried couple sleeping together in the same bedroom of the Presidential Palace in Paris. It would not be okay in India.

Never mind, East is East; West is West: Twain shall never meet.

Wish the unwed couple a happy living.