Scorned former first lady in kiss-and-tell on Hollande

French President François Hollande’s ex-girlfriend writes in a tell-all book to be published today that months after their public breakup he was trying to win her back with flowers, dinner invitations, and barrages of text messages.

Valérie Trierweiler — a journalist for glossy magazine Paris Match — lived with Hollande at the Elysee presidential palace for a year and a half until a gossip magazine exposed his secret relationship with actress Julie Gayet, 42, in January.

After her breakup with the president, Trierweiler, 49, granted interviews and kept up a weekly literary column.