“Two and a half months later we got married.” Nicolas Sarkozy tells about his first meeting with Carla Bruni.

Everything happened very quickly. In the evening, when Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy met, it didn’t take long to realize their mutual love for each other at first sight. The politician and former president of the republic spoke again about this crazy meeting in the podcast LEGENDpresented by Guillaume Play. He revisited his extraordinary life journey in an episode posted online on November 17. And his meeting with his current wife is no exception. He tells.

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The couple first met on November 13, 2007. At the time, Nicolas Sarkozy had just split from Cecilia Attias, with whom he had a son, Louis Battle time (published in 2023 by Ed. Fayard), the politician said that Jacques Seguela organized a dinner and invited the singer and top model because “he found that only the president does not generate good press”. “Karla would tell him. “I would never shake this man’s hand for anything in the world,” the advertiser replies.

In the podcast, Nicolas Sarkozy looks back at his writings and jokes. “No, no, twenty minutes is too long.” Then he tells about the evening. “I had never seen Carla, I walked into the room, she blushed a little, I left dinner with her without talking to anyone. And two and a half months later we were married.” The couple celebrated their union on February 2, 2008, in strictest secrecy.