Hollande’s plans to announce split foiled

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.

Concern over the well-being of Trierweiler mounted as the official partner of President Hollande remained in hospital and it emerged he has not visited her once.

Trierweiler has now spent a week in a Paris clinic being treated for stress. She was admitted last Friday just hours after it was revealed that her partner had been having an affair with actress Julie Gayet, rumoured to be four months pregnant.