Hollande to discuss love triangle

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.

Francois Hollande is expected to break his silence about the family feud that has riveted the media during a television interview today – tradition-steeped Bastille Day when a military parade and an interview by the chief of state about French policy at home and abroad is standard.