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Article: Is the strain of running France (and keeping up with Carla) too much for Sarkozy?
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 27, 2009
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The 54-year-old French president may not be as bulletproof as he
seems
THE AURA of youth and indestructible energy cultivated by
President Nicolas Sarkozy was dealt a severe blow yesterday when he
collapsed while jogging at Versailles.
One of the first people to rush to his aid was his wife, Carla
Bruni-Sarkzoy. She was seen by an eye-witness arriving on a
motorbike from the presidential retreat nearby.
President Sarkozy, 54, was under cardiological and neurological
surveillance last night at the Val-de-Grce military hospital in
Paris but the Elysee Palace insisted that he had been the victim of
a relatively banal fainting fit - or "vasovagal episode" - and had
not lost consciousness.
Such ...