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President Hollande visits partner Trierweiler in hospital | President Hollande visits partner Trierweiler in hospital |
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President Hollande has visited First Lady Valerie Trierweiler in hospital for the first time since reports of his alleged affair broke last week. | President Hollande has visited First Lady Valerie Trierweiler in hospital for the first time since reports of his alleged affair broke last week. |
Ms Trierweiler was admitted to hospital, apparently in shock after learning of the reports. | |
Closer magazine first published details of Mr Hollande's link with French actress Julie Gayet last Friday. | |
The magazine has further alleged that the affair began during the 2012 presidential race. | The magazine has further alleged that the affair began during the 2012 presidential race. |
Ms Gayet says she is suing Closer for breach of privacy, seeking 50,000 euros (£41,000; $68,000) in damages and 4,000 euros in legal costs. | Ms Gayet says she is suing Closer for breach of privacy, seeking 50,000 euros (£41,000; $68,000) in damages and 4,000 euros in legal costs. |
'Difficult moment' | |
Francois Hollande visited his partner in hospital for the first time on Thursday evening, the Elysee Palace confirmed on Friday, without giving further details. | |
Ms Trierweiler, 48, was admitted to hospital last Friday - hours after the first revelations made by Closer magazine. | |
Earlier on Thursday, she phoned a journalist to explain that it was her doctors who had advised Mr Hollande not to visit. He had sent her flowers and chocolates, she said. | |
She said she was still too weak to stand. | |
In response to the reports, a source at the Elysee Palace said Mr Hollande was "not unhappy" about the hospital forbidding him to visit. | |
French media have claimed that Ms Trierweiler suffered an anxiety attack last week, but her friends have played down her condition. | |
Le Point magazine quoted a friend of Ms Trierweiler as saying she had taken "one pill too many", but had not tried to commit suicide. | |
At his annual news conference on Tuesday at the Elysee to discuss his political agenda, Mr Hollande was asked questions about the alleged affair. | |
Mr Hollande, 59, said he was experiencing a "difficult moment" in his private life but refused to answer questions over the report in Closer, saying "private matters should be dealt with privately". | |
Nor would he clarify whether Ms Trierweiler was still First Lady before a February trip to the US. | |
'Turbulent' | |
In its latest revelations, Closer magazine said the president and Julie Gayet had been having a "turbulent romance" for two years - during and after Mr Hollande's election campaign. | |
It said the French president used a second apartment in the west of Paris to meet the 41-year-old actress. | |
And it also claimed that Mr Hollande made excuses to avoid a holiday in Greece last year with Ms Trierweiler so he could travel instead to his Correze constituency with Ms Gayet. | |
Closer's seven-page report on the alleged affair last Friday showed photos of a man in a crash helmet on a moped, said to be Mr Hollande, visiting an apartment building near the Elysee Palace. | |
Ms Gayet is shown at the building in a separate photo. | Ms Gayet is shown at the building in a separate photo. |
Mr Hollande has not denied the story, though he did briefly threaten to sue the magazine for invasion of privacy. | Mr Hollande has not denied the story, though he did briefly threaten to sue the magazine for invasion of privacy. |
Public reaction to the issue has been muted. | Public reaction to the issue has been muted. |