As a multilingual pop star, Carla Bruni intimately feels each language.
In her native Italian, she explains, reading a simple menu sounds like poetry but the words can be hard for non-natives to decipher.
French, her main professional language, is wonderful for writers but lacks tonality -- "Rr! rr! rr! rr! rr! rr!" she explains for emphasis, exaggerating the GallicRead more
France’s ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy was spectacularly thrown out of the race for the French presidency on Sunday, with voters cutting short a political comeback that tapped into populist sentiment.
Dealt a humiliating blow in the conservative nomination contest, four years after losing a first re-election bid to Socialist Francois Hollande, Sarkozy, 61, alluded to a possible withdrawal from political lifeRead more