French press mocks wedding of former first lady

FRANCE: THE FORMER wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy has married a PR executive in a fashionable ceremony that the French…

FRANCE:THE FORMER wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy has married a PR executive in a fashionable ceremony that the French media has poked fun at.

Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz (50) married Richard Attias (48) on Sunday, less than two months after Mr Sarkozy married singer and former model Carla Bruni in Paris.

"Three marriages and a year of erring," was the headline in France's Liberationnewspaper.

"Knowing perfectly well that this is information which interests no one, let's remark that this weekend in New York, Cecilia Isabel Ciganer-Albeniz married Richard Attias," the opening paragraph read yesterday on a two-page spread in the left-leaning paper.

Le Figarosaid the wedding took place in the elegant Rainbow Room of the Rockefeller Center and that the 150 guests had been asked to come without cameras or portable phones.

It was Ms Ciganer-Albeniz's third marriage.

- (Reuters)

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