When even their president is being caught sneaking around behind his partner’s back, it is perhaps not surprising to find that the French top a poll for infidelity, alongside the equally hot-blooded Italians.

The implosion of French president Francois Hollande’s relationship reveals the misery of infidelity. But there is a way back if both parties are willing to travel the long road together, says Sharon Ni Chonchuir.

Julie Gayet, the actress reported to have had an affair with president François Hollande, has been nominated for the French equivalent of an Oscar — for playing a super-sexy vamp.

France’s former first lady Valerie Trierweiler has revealed she may write a book about her split with the president and said she is “more disappointed than angry” about the scandal.

French president François Hollande has been hit with a backlash over the manner in which he dumped former first lady Valerie Trierweiler after being caught having a secret affair.

After losing her title as France’s first lady, Valerie Trierweiler has begun forging a new role as a goodwill ambassador, with her glamour and media savvy guaranteeing her maximum publicity on a charity trip to India.

A day after splitting up with France’s president, Valerie Trierweiler launched a new stage in her life with a charity visit to India.

Valerie Trierweiler, the ex-partner of French President Francois Hollande, flew to India yesterdayon a charity mission, despite Saturday’s announcement that the couple have split.

Thousands of protesters are holding a 'day of rage' in Paris against the French president Francois Hollande.

French president Francois Hollande has ended his relationship with his companion of seven years, Valerie Trierweiler, according to a French news agency.

French president François Hollande met Pope Francis amid tensions in his private life over a gossip magazine’s report about an alleged affair with an actress.

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.

France’s first lady has ended a more than week-long stay at a hospital where she went to rest after a gossip magazine’s report about an alleged affair between President Francois Hollande and an actress.

FRANÇOIS Hollande’s sexual adventures are a private matter, with no bearing on his public role — French public opinion confirms.

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.

Francois Hollande planned to announce to the world’s press last Tuesday that he and Valerie Trierweiler had officially split, but his plans were scrapped after his partner was hospitalised, according to reports.

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.

The woman considered France’s first lady has been admitted to hospital after a report that the president is having an affair with an actress.

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.

France’s first lady Valerie Trierweiler would make her life a lot easier if she stopped living out of wedlock and became a “legitimate” wife: that’s the simple advice from her predecessor Carla Bruni.

Military jets trailing exhaust in the red, white and blue of the French flag opened Francois Hollande’s first Bastille Day parade as president on Saturday and parachutists gliding in on chutes in the same patriotic colours ended it, thumping down on Paris’ famed Champs-Elysees in front of the new French leader.

A feud involving the French president’s live-in girlfriend, his former partner and his eldest son may have tarnished the new leader’s carefully cultivated image as Mr Normal – credited with helping him win the spring election among a populace weary of his flashy predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy.

In a French election subplot, prominent Socialist Segolene Royal – the mother of Francois Hollande’s four children and the runner-up to Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential vote – lost her race in western France and her bid to become Parliament speaker.

President Francois Hollande’s partner has set the French political establishment aghast with a tweet seen as a dig against his ex-partner.

With a single tweet, France’s first lady has managed to take a swipe at her husband’s ex, put herself publicly at odds with the president, and thrown a spanner in the works of his Socialist party.

AS FRANCE’S first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy styled herself on Jackie Onassis, acted in a Woody Allen film and had a folk-music career.

Humble beginnings and a good work ethic will help the new first lady hold her own in French circles, writes Elaine Ganley

Winning came easy but François Hollande now has to learn to govern, writes Michael Mainville