Sarkozy & Bruni Honeymoon At Versailles
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife, model and singer Carla Bruni, spent their wedding night in a former hunting lodge near the palace at Versailles, news reports said Sunday.
An Associated Press photographer spotted the newlyweds taking a stroll, hand-in-hand, in Versailles' gardens on Sunday, a day after their small, private wedding at the presidential Elysee Palace.
The two hosted a small wedding dinner Saturday night at La Lanterne, a former hunting lodge in Versailles, outside Paris, that has become a presidential residence, Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper said.
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Sarkozy, 53, and Bruni, 40, were married Saturday, less than three months after they reportedly first met, and less than four months after his divorce from the previous first lady, Cecilia. The newlyweds issued a laconic statement, saying only that they tied the knot "in the presence of their families in the strictest privacy."
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As the couple strolled in Versailles on Sunday they were accompanied by Italian businessman Maurizio Remmert, who has reportedly claimed to be Bruni's biological father from an affair he had with her mother, concert pianist Marysa Borini. Bruni was raised by her mother and industrialist Alberto Bruni Tedeschi.
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The wedding was the third for Sarkozy, who has three sons. It was the first for Bruni, who has a young son from a previous relationship. A longtime top model, Bruni has reinvented herself as a singer in recent years.
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