"I can confirm they're back together," a close friend, MP Patrick Balkany, told Le Parisien newspaper. "She returned from New York on January 2 and he met her off the plane in his ministerial car. She's back in their apartment at the interior ministry. Both of them have turned the page; we're delighted. They belong together."
The couple separated this spring after Mrs Sarkozy, 47, a dynamic divorcee who has long acted as her husband's senior adviser, diary-fixer and principal private secretary, admitted she could not face the idea of ever being first lady and needed "time out to be alone and to think".
She did not spend a great deal of time alone, appearing on the front cover of Paris Match in August with her new companion, Richard Attias, an events organiser, in New York. Mr Sarkozy was deeply shaken by her departure, to the extent of cancelling a number of TV appearances.
Friends said he was "completely lost" without his wife, blaming some more than usually inflammatory statements by the ambitious interior minister on his "emotional disorientation".
Mr Sarkozy, 50, was not so directionless, however, that he failed to fall into the arms of an attractive political journalist from the conservative daily Le Figaro - and then threatened
to sue anyone who published her name."
I thought that the French were supposed to be more discreet about this sort of thing.
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