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What is it about François Hollande that drives women wild?

I flew into a rage last Sunday when our eight-month-old puppy stole one of my shoes. By the time I retrieved it she'd done considerable damage, having chewed off most of the heel. Oh well, I thought, at least I have some more upstairs. Unlike French president Franois Hollande, who, we're told, only has one pair.

In fact, it was the shoes that gave him away: the sleuths of Closer magazine who spotted him visiting his new mistress, Julie Gayet, noticed they were the same ones he had worn on a state visit to Saudi Arabia the day before. The shoes, the battered old scooter he arrived on and the crash helmet he wore as a disguise, seem to have offended the French far more than the affair itself.

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