奧朗德首次探望“第一女友” 和新歡交往已有兩年
法國總統辦公室17日透露，在“第一女友”瓦萊麗住院6天后，奧朗德16日第一次去醫院看望了她。瓦萊麗方面否認兩人關係已經結束，表示願意原諒奧朗德，辯解說奧朗德此前因醫生的制止纔沒來看望。
此前，八卦雜誌《靠近》披露了奧朗德與41歲女演員加耶有染的消息，並公開有關照片。“第一女友”48歲的瓦萊麗隨後住進醫院。
據《靠近》報道說，奧朗德當上總統之前就在2011年認識了加耶，已經和她交往了兩年。也有報道說奧朗德的長子托馬斯•奧朗德的女朋友喬伊斯•喬納森認識加耶，在2012年的一場午宴上把加耶介紹給法國總統，兩人的戀情就此開始。
奧朗德和加耶最初在巴黎西部一個大公寓幽會，後來因有人偷拍而改在巴黎東部加耶的家中見面。奧朗德的舉動引起瓦萊麗的懷疑、和加耶的交往於2013年春天一度中斷之後，又在愛麗捨宮附近的一間小公寓裏繼續來往。奧朗德經常祕會加耶，前後大約20次造訪小公寓。同年夏天，奧朗德還找藉口逃避和瓦萊麗去希臘度假，只爲和加耶共度春宵。奧朗德9月還趁着假期帶加耶去法國南部度假。
奧朗德在新聞發佈會上表示這段時間過得很“痛苦”，承諾將在2月11日訪問美國之前給出明確的說法。不過，愛麗捨宮內部消息稱，戀情曝光後，奧朗德非但沒有灰心喪氣，反而精神抖擻。奧朗德的朋友說：“他把這件事當成政治問題——而不是愛情問題——來處理。”也有人表示奧朗德整個人冷靜、愉悅、放鬆。
François Hollande has been having an affair with Julie Gayet for two years and the French president was introduced to the actress by Ségolène Royal, his ex-partner and mother of his four children, according to the gossip magazine that broke the story last week.
The magazine said the president and Miss Gayet had been having a "turbulent romance" that began in 2011, before Mr Hollande's election campaign.
The revelations in Friday’s edition of Closer, which Miss Gayet, 41, is suing for breach of privacy, came as Mr Hollande's official partner, Valerie Trierweiler, remained in hospital, where she was admitted after learning of the alleged affair a week ago. Friends were reported to have said on Thursday that she had taken “a pill too many” and was too weak to stand.
Closer’s initial scoop showed photos of Miss Gayet and a man in a moped helmet it said was the president entering a flat near the Elysée on December 31. In a fresh salvo, the magazine on Friday said that the pair had initially used a vast apartment in the west of Paris, but had chosen to abandon it after the concierge tried to take of a photo of them.
They also met at her converted loft in the East of Paris, where she lives with her two sons and often invites artists, writers, and politicians, it said.
After a break last Spring, when Miss Trierweiler became suspicious, the affair had resumed in June, Closer said. A small apartment in the Rue du Cirque 150 yards from the Elysee Palace, became available.
"From that moment onwards, the head of state and the actress were constantly together, visiting the apartment around 20 times," Closer said.
The president reportedly made excuses to avoid a holiday in Greece last summer with Miss Trierweiler, so he could travel instead to his Corrèze constituency with Miss Gayet.
According to Closer, the president and the actress also spent a weekend together at Mr Hollande's holiday home at Mougins in the south of France in September.
In a fresh twist to the private affair that has plunged Mr Hollande’s presidency into crisis, the magazine said that the Socialist leader was first introduced to Miss Gayet by Miss Royal in 2011 - before he clinched the presidency.
The actress was a staunch supporter of Miss Royal.
Other reports said that their affair started proper in 2012 after Mr Hollande was re-introduced to his current mistress by his son.
Thomas Hollande, 29, the oldest of his four children, organised a lunch in 2012 after his new girlfriend, Joyce Jonathan, a pop star whose friends included Miss Gayet, asked if the actress could come along to discuss the arts.
There is no love lost between Miss Trierweiler and Mr Hollande’s four children, who they see as having broken up his relationship with their mother.
They refused to speak to her for a year after she sent a Twitter message expressing support for Olivier Falorni, a dissident Socialist running against Miss Royal in parliamentary elections.
Miss Royal announced her split with Mr Hollande on the day she lost her presidential bid in 2007, but his relationship with Miss Trierweiler had already been going on for at least two years.
After the Tweet episode, Miss Royal is said to have advised her not to fret about Mr Hollande’s ex-partners, but that “you should be more worried about who is next”.
Adding further intrigue, Voici, the glossy magazine, on Thursday published a photograph it said showed Miss Royal visiting Miss Trierweiler in hospital, alleging she had spent a couple of hours with the de factor First Lady.
Miss Royal slammed the report as “completely false”.
Mr Hollande admitted on Tuesday that he was going through a “painful time” in his private life at an Elysée Palace press conference. He promised to clarify the situation before a trip to the White House on February 11, saying it was “neither the time nor the place” to discuss the matter.
But behind the scences, both camps are furiously briefing journalists about their side of the relationship.
Reports from within the Elysée suggest that rather than being unnerved by the revelation of his affair with Miss Gayet, the president is more energised than ever. "He is managing this business as if it was a political problem, not a romantic problem," a friend of the President told Le Parisien.
Other visitors to the Elysee have described a man who seems "calm", "happy" and "liberated" after Tuesday's press conference.
However, he reportedly narrowly missed a potentially catastrophic showdown before the world’s press with Miss Trierweiler; according to le Parisien, the Paris Match journalist had planned to steal the show by hauling herself out of bed to attend the Elysée conference before 600 reporters, but doctors talked her out of it.
The newspaper said Mr Hollande and his aides were now working on how to avoid humiliating his partner further, with one aide saying: “He’ll find her something nice (to do).”
Mr Hollande's office said on Friday that he had on Thursday evening paid his first visit to Miss Trierweiler in hospital, six days after she was admitted.
Miss Trierweiler’s camp previously told journalists that if Mr Hollande had not paid her a visit, it was because doctors had forbidden him to do so.
They deny claims the relationship is over, and say that she is willing to forgive him.
