https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed France's former first lady Valerie Trierweiler took another swipe her at her ex-partner François Hollande on Sunday by tweeting out a picture of herself wearing a T-shirt with a special message for the president. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151109/im-too-sexy-for-my-ex-trierweiler-tells-hollande Mon, 09 Nov 2015 10:09:22 +0100 im-too-sexy-for-my-ex-trierweiler-tells-hollande The ex-girlfriend of French President Francois Hollande, Valerie Trierweiler, said on Wednesday that she has stopped her tell-all book about their time together being made into a movie. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151014/hollandes-ex-stops-tell-all-book-being-made-into-movie Wed, 14 Oct 2015 17:07:49 +0200 hollandes-ex-stops-tell-all-book-being-made-into-movie Valerie Trierweiler, the former partner of President François Hollande, has turned heads in France after a Hollywood-styled photo shoot left her looking a lot younger than her 50 years. And Trierweiler didn't deny the truth. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150929/whatever-happened-to-valerie-trierweiler Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:04:04 +0200 whatever-happened-to-valerie-trierweiler Valérie Trierweiler, the former partner of French President Francois Hollande, has been reported to police for allegedly slapping someone in a Paris café on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150312/trierweiler-slaps-customer-in-paris-caf Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:27:00 +0100 trierweiler-slaps-customer-in-paris-caf The prospect of a film adaptation of Valérie Trierweiler’s tell-all memoir, Thank You for This Moment, has sparked anger among those close to the French president. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150106/hollandes-camp-furious-over-trierweiler-movie Tue, 06 Jan 2015 19:22:00 +0100 hollandes-camp-furious-over-trierweiler-movie Valérie Trierweiler’s sizzling memoir is set to be turned into a film after France’s former "First Lady" gave the green light for a fictionalized adaptation of her tell-all bestseller. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150105/juicy-trierweiler-memoir-set-for-silver-screen Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:35:00 +0100 juicy-trierweiler-memoir-set-for-silver-screen Valérie Trierweiler, François Hollande’s former girlfriend, has been speaking to British media about her life as the unofficial first lady and how it all fell apart. We've gathered together a few of the juiciest extracts from her interviews. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141124/valrie-trierweiler-speaks-out-in-uk Mon, 24 Nov 2014 13:09:00 +0100 valrie-trierweiler-speaks-out-in-uk After disappearing from view following the publication of her tell-all memoir in France, Valérie Trierweiler, the former girlfriend of the French President, is making her comeback – but on the other side of the English Channel. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141118/valerie-trierweiler-goes-on-charm-offensive-in-the-uk Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:55:00 +0100 valerie-trierweiler-goes-on-charm-offensive-in-the-uk Valérie Trierweiler’s tell-all book about her life with French President François Hollande has made her wealthier than her ex. It's perhaps an ironic twist for Trierweiler who claimed in the book that Hollande mocked her for her humble origins. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140926/tell-all-book-makes-trierweiler-richer-than-hollande Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:23:00 +0200 tell-all-book-makes-trierweiler-richer-than-hollande During a long-awaited press conference on Thursday, French President François Hollande said he has authorised air strikes in Iraq, joining a US-led effort to stop the lightning advance of Islamic State group militants there. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140918/french-president-to-face-reporters-questions Thu, 18 Sep 2014 19:00:00 +0200 french-president-to-face-reporters-questions Valérie Trierweiler’s tell-all memoir has flown off the shelves in France, but most people think François Hollande’s ex-partner should never have written it, two new polls reveal. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140911/trierweiler-wrong-to-write-tell-all-hollande-book Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:27:00 +0200 trierweiler-wrong-to-write-tell-all-hollande-book France's President François Hollande provided his strongest rebuke yet of the tell-all book from his ex-partner which mercilessly attacks him on personal and political fronts. Hollande, in particular, categorically denied ever referring to France's poor as the "toothless." https://www.thelocal.fr/20140910/its-a-lie-and-it-hurts-me-hollande Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:32:00 +0200 its-a-lie-and-it-hurts-me-hollande The same day President François Hollande responded to the most hurtful claims in his ex's tell-all memoir, The Local hit the streets to see what the French think about the book and its impact on their historically unpoplar leader. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140905/hollande-trierweiler-book-affair Fri, 05 Sep 2014 18:43:00 +0200 hollande-trierweiler-book-affair Valérie Trierweiler's "bombshell" of a tell-all memoir that went on sale on Thursday has stirred up a hornet's nest in France, thanks to some pretty revealing insights. We've pulled together the best extracts. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140904/trierweiler-hollande-book-extracts-best Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:28:00 +0200 trierweiler-hollande-book-extracts-best French President François Hollande doesn’t like poor people and refers to them as the “sans-dents” (toothless ones), France’s ex-first lady Valérie Trierweiler claims in her new kiss-and-tell book, that was released on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140904/trierweiler-hollande-book-poor-toothless Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:12:00 +0200 trierweiler-hollande-book-poor-toothless Extracts of a new tell-all book by President François Hollande's ex-partner Valérie Trierweiler were published on Wednesday in which the ex-"first-lady" describes the moment she "cracked" on hearing of his affair with an actress and how the president tried to get her back. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140903/trierweiler-hollande-was-desperate-to-get-me-back Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:34:00 +0200 trierweiler-hollande-was-desperate-to-get-me-back A potentially explosive new memoir is due out this week from Valerie Trierwieler, France's ex-"first lady" who was dumped by the president for his mistress. The book apparently does little to "spare" François Hollande. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140902/trierweiler-hollande-book-affair-first-lady Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:02:00 +0200 trierweiler-hollande-book-affair-first-lady Celebrity magazine Closer was ordered to pay €12,000 ($16,500) to the French president's ex partner Valerie Trierweiler on Thursday over pictures of her in a bikini. On the same day, François Hollande's mistress Julie Gayet brought her own privacy suit against the magazine. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140306/hollandes-ex-wins-privacy-case-over-bikini-snaps Thu, 06 Mar 2014 16:00:00 +0100 hollandes-ex-wins-privacy-case-over-bikini-snaps While many Americans had barely heard of French president François Hollande a month ago, the revelation of his alleged affair with an actress has changed all that. The scandal means his official state visit to the US is the subject of much media attention. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140210/hollande-unknown-in-us-until-alleged-affair Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:19:00 +0100 hollande-unknown-in-us-until-alleged-affair French President Francois Hollande's dumped ex, Valerie Trierweiler, is to sue Closer magazine after the French glossy published pictures of her getting over her break-up on a tropical beach. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140208/trierweiler-sues-over-end-of-affair-bikini-beach-snaps Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:13:00 +0100 trierweiler-sues-over-end-of-affair-bikini-beach-snaps