FRANCE’S first lady Carla Bruni is expected to give birth any day soon, keeping French media on tenterhooks before an event that could offer President Nicolas Sarkozy a welcome respite from non-stop political headwinds.

PRESIDENT Nicholas Sarkozy might have just got remarried, but his love affair with the French electorate appears well and truly over.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy is reportedly planning to marry his girlfriend, Iralian model Bruni.