THE detail about the pelvic exercises got to me. Last Saturday’s Irish Examiner carried an article by the UK social scientist Catherine Hakim extolling the virtues of the relatively casual French attitude to married peoples’ affairs and the centrality of sex to French life.

AN illicit love affair is so quintessentially French that revelations of President François Hollande’s clandestine meetings with Julie Gayet have been greeted by the French with a shrug.

President François Hollande’s partner emerged from a week’s stay in hospital as the French leader faced calls to clear up his personal life after his affair with an actress was made public.

French President François Hollande faced fresh scrutiny over his affair with an actress as the magazine that broke the story published claims he started seeing her before his 2012 election.

President Francois Hollande has visited France’s first lady for the first time since she was taken to hospital for rest following a gossip magazine’s report that he was having an affair with an actress.

Under pressure French president François Hollande has faced the media over accusations that he is having an affair but he coolly side-stepped giving any details on his personal life.

Embattled French President Francois Hollande is to face the media today for the first time since news of his alleged affair with a actress became public.

François Hollande’s partner Valerie Trierweiler is “ready to forgive” the French president for having a secret affair with a 41-year old actress, but wants “clarification” about his future intentions, it was reported.

French President François Hollande has threatened legal action over a magazine report saying he is having a secret affair with an actress, the latest breach in the French media’s practice of turning a blind eye to presidential love affairs.

French President Francois Hollande has threatened legal action over a magazine report saying he is having a secret affair with an actress, the latest breach in the French media’s practice of turning a blind eye to presidential love affairs.