Sarkozy & Bruni - The New "It" CoupleP&C rule: Don't write about celebrities, religion, politicians or politics. Take note readers, rules are about to be broken! Yes, I should probably be writing about our own New Hampshire primary, however I am taking my cues from the glamour of The Continent. Yes, today it was announced that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is set to wed his girlfriend, former model and current folk-rock chanteuse, Carla Bruni. Le plus beau du quartier, et quoi même! She'll certainly be the prettiest girl around the Élysée Palace.

God, where do I begin with this one?

You younger kids may not know this, but Bruni is really one of the last of the old-school supermodels. True, her name may not be up there in recognition with the Turlingtons, Crawfords, or Campbells, but she is certainly their peer. Where Campbell is south of Charing Cross, Bruni has that Euro glamour of Italian industrialism (she's the heir to the Pirelli tire fortune,) and Swiss boarding schools. As her modeling career blossomed into a six-digit salary, she dated rock stars (Jagger, Clapton) , business men (Trump), and even some fellows around Hollywood. She even appeared in a documentary you've probably seen: Isaac Mizrahi's Unzipped. Doesn't it all sound so Grace Kelly/Edie Sedgwick-meets Studio 54?

She's known to be a bit of a nut - eccentic, outspoken, an exhibitionist, yet with all of this, the lady does have talent. Her debut album entitled Quelqu'un m'a dit has been incredibly succesful internationally, and is one of my personal favorites.

Nicolas Sarkozy was elected the President of France this past May, on a "center-right" conservative platform. (Conservative to the French is what an American might consider rather liberal.) His platform for election was criticised for being hard-line, yet he is really bringing France into the new millenium by encouraging longer work-weeks, industry, and modernization. In his speech after being elected, he stated he wanted to "restore the value of work, authority, merit, and respect for the nation." In other words: no more two-hour lunches at La Coupole! Overall, he's neither right nor left, receiving criticism from both sides, and is simply forging ahead with his own ideas of reform and modernity for the French. All I can say is: Bravo!

In October he divorced his second wife by mutual consent. (Since he is President, she could not have filed a case against him.) Then, two months later, he was spotted with Bruni on his arm at, of all the places to go around Paris, Euro Disneyland.

Sarko is chic enough in his own merit, ranking 68th on the world's best-dressed list by Vanity Fair, alongside David Beckham and Brad Pitt. Do I really need to bring this point home? No. He is certainly an attractive man: older, salt-n-pepper, Hungarian-French, political leader of the sixth-largest economy in the world. (This begs the question: why DID 60 Minutes send the obnoxious and dowdy Leslie Stahl to interview this man? I mean...duh! No wonder he cut the interview short. He was probably blinded by Stahl's mid-80s shoulder pads and bad matchy-matchy earrings. What producer was on duty that day? Why did no one call Lara Logan or Christiane Amanpour? Okay, enough.)

The Sarkozy-Bruni combination is positively delicious in its glamourous jet-set vibe. The pair seem to be a perfectly heady combination of beauty, style, money, power, and sex-appeal. I'm completely loving every last succulent breath of this pairing. With this in mind, I give you a performance of Bruni's Le Toi du Moi...