Thank you for this moment, Valérie Trierweiler

One day, a passionate love set my life ablaze. He had four children. I had three. We decided to live together. But politics is a consuming passion. Starting from far behind, François Hollande was elected president of the Republic. I was swept up in his wake.
Power is a trial for the one who wields it, but also for their loved ones. At the Élysée, I often felt illegitimate. The little girl from the ZUP as first lady: there was something wrong with that.
I learned of the President's infidelity through the press, like everyone else.
The photos went global while I was in the hospital, under tranquilizers. And the man I loved broke up with me via an eighteen-word statement that he himself dictated to the AFP, as if he were handling a state affair.
Everything I write in this book is true. As a journalist, I sometimes felt like I was on assignment at the Élysée. And I suffered too much from deceit to commit it in turn.

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