First lady Bruni releases new album
Carla Bruni, the supermodel singer who is married to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has released her latest album - and the first since she took up residence in the Elysee Palace.
The title of the 14-track album is revealing: Comme si de rien n'etait (As If Nothing Had Happened).
Pictures show the top model turned singer -- who married Mr Sarkozy in February -- walking by a lake in a woodland scene.
The 40-year-old has become a popular first lady but it remains to see if her third album be a hit like the first in 2002, which sold two million copies, or a flop like the 2006 follow-up.
Sales were thin this morning at Virgin Megastore on the Champs-Elysees, but one customer says he did not buy the album for the name.
"I think it is the artist who is more interesting," says Eric Gardner de Beville.