• Issue 2

A month ago Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of France with 53 per cent of the votes.

But his wife was not among his supporters on that day. Cecilia Sarkozy, who is "hot in Prada" according to many Frenchmen, decided she had something more exciting to do with her Sunday than vote for her frenetic husband.

Sarko is now the newly elected President, and he is receiving his baptism of fire, chatting about our planet's destiny at the G8 meeting.

But the "French Queen of Escape" has done it again. As she came down the stairs of the "République" airplane, she looked like she'd rather be sipping a café in the bar of Fouquet's than shaking Angela Merkel's hand.
She was expected to attend yesterday's wives' event, hosted by a brave and lone man -Angie's husband, Joachim Sauer.
That's the moment she picked to disappear in the wilderness.

Picture the scene one moment if you will.
The eager Joachim bringing a plate of crabs to the French First Lady. His heart beating like a Wagner opera, he returns to the point where he spotted her for the first time. But after hours of Cecilia crab-hunting, Sauer discovers the hideous truth: she was gone.

French officials are struggling to provide convincing arguments for her disappearance. The point being to avoid suspicion of a new marital crisis in the Sarkozy household.

She had her daughter's birthday to attend, some have argued.
She had an other heart to break, others could say.

Without trying to gossip, I smell a crab in that story.