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11/21/10

France: French minister with new trophy wife feels the rage of a woman's revenge - by Matthew Campbell

The former wife of Eric Besson, France's immigration minister, has publicly skewered him as a shameless cradle-snatcher just as Nicolas Sarkozy, the President, was preparing to reshuffle his cabinet.

Mr Besson, 52, who left his wife for a woman less than half his age, is hated on the left for his defection from the Socialist party to Mr Sarkozy's camp.

The jilted wife's depiction of him as a shameless seducer does not discourage the national antipathy. “They tell the woman to be elegant when her husband betrays her,” said Sylvie Brunel, the former wife, in an interview with The Sunday Times. “But that means saying nothing. I've always preferred revolt. I will not stay quiet.”

Besides laying into the father of her three children, she also puts the boot into Yasmine, the sultry 24-year-old art student of north African origin whom Mr Besson ended up marrying.

For more: French minister with new trophy wife feels the rage of a woman's revenge | The Australian

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