Francois Hollande (center) Paramour Julie Gayet (left) and First Lady Valerie Trierweiler
French President Francois Hollande and his first lady, Valerie Trierweiler, are together studying a "clarification" of their relationship, Trierweiler's lawyer told the newspaper
Le Figaro.
Trierweiler remains holed up in a presidential residence in Versailles outside Paris after Saturday leaving hospital where she was treated for a bout of "tiredness" brought on by press revelations of Hollande's affair with a French actress, Julie Gayet, 41.
Speculation is rife in Paris and elsewhere that Hollande, 59, might be poised to dump Trierweiler, 48, his longterm partner who was with him when he became president in 2012.
The president promised in a mid-January news conference that he would publicly define what relationship, if any, he and Trierweiler had before going on a February 11 state visit to Washington.
Trierweiler's lawyer, Frederique Giffard, said "the president of the republic and my client are thinking it over," according to a report on Le Figaro's news website.
Trierweiler, a former political reporter who maintains a contract with the magazine
Paris Match, wants to come out of the scandal "in the most dignified way possible," she added.
Comment: When psychopathic perverts are running the show here on planet earth, a process called Ponerogenesis develops: You can read more Ponerogenesis here.
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