In Bruni, French See Marie Antoinette

First lady gets flak as she and Sarko hit the beach
By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 11, 2009 10:25 AM CDT
In Bruni, French See Marie Antoinette
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni with Mexico's President Felipe Calderon and wife Margarita Zavala at the National Palace in Mexico City Monday March 9 , 2009.   (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Like most of Europe, France is slogging through a recession and facing climbing unemployment. But president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, are in Mexico, staying at a $5,500-a-night beachfront villa. The honeymoon's over, reports the New York Daily News, and Bruni is suffering comparisons to another foreigner who married a French head of state: Marie Antoinette.

After Bruni attended a state dinner in Mexico City decked out in diamonds, one Frenchman lamented that "Sarko and Carla are back to acting like Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette again."
(More Carla Bruni stories.)

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