[ABC.NET.AU] French president Francois Hollande...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
has complained of a breach of privacy and is considering legal action after a French magazine alleged he was having an affair with actress Julie Gayet.
The weekly tabloid Closer, criticised in 2012 for publishing topless pictures of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, published seven pages of photos of comings and goings outside a Gay Paree apartment block to support its allegation.
A woman who the publication said is Gayet, 41, is seen arriving at the apartment block at night. The pictures then show the arrival of a man resembling Mr Hollande's bodyguard. A second man - which Closer said was Hollande - then arrives on the back of a scooter. He is unidentifiable because he is wearing a black helmet.