'We'll do better than Marilyn and Kennedy'

The common friend who introduced French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni reveals explosive details of their first date

The common friend who introduced French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni reveals explosive details of their first date

France already knew it was love at first sight for Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni. Now, the country is being

love at first sight: Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni in Egypt. Sarkozy invited her to spend Christmas with him in Egypt on their very first date. Though she refused that day, she eventually accepted the offer

treated to the full script of the instant romance betwe-en the French president and the supermodel singer with a reputation as a man-eater.

True to his impulsive form, a bedazzled Sarkozy offered marriage on the night he met the Italian-born Bruni at a dinner party, according to an eyewitness account published today. He dared her to kiss him and said she would be Marilyn Monroe to his JFK.

The freshly divorced president also claimed to be her romantic and sexual soul mate and jealously mocked the legs of Mick Jagger, one of her former lovers.

The fly-on-the-wall tale of the future first couple's high-octane mating rituals came from Jacques Seguela, the friend who invited them on a blind date to his home on November 13, 2007. They married seven weeks later.
Seguela, a friend of both, took notes of the coup de foudre and published them this week in Autobiographie non autorisee.

'Game of seduction'

Seguela's story of the "unexpected game of seduction between two wild beasts" played out before the eyes of his bemused other guests.

The president, playing the field after Cecilia, his previous wife, had walked out a month earlier, asked Seguela to organise the meeting. He turned up late. He was attracted "like a magnet" to Bruni, then turning 40, and threw himself at her, playfully.

Behaving like "the huntress Diana with velvet claws", Bruni toyed with the over-eager president and warned him that she knew of his reputation as a womaniser.

"My reputation is no worse than yours," he told her. "I know you well without ever meeting you. I understand everything about you... You make love because no one makes love to you. I know everything about you because I am so much you."

The couple left together and Bruni gave Sarkozy her telephone number. She telephoned her host 10 minutes later and complained, "Your chum what charm, what intelligence, what attention, what energy, what seductiveness. But I find him a bit of a boor. I left him my number and he still hasn't called."

Made for each other

Describing the pair as made for one another, Seguela said he concluded straight away that Bruni was interested in Sarkozy as she wore flat-soled pumps, a practice she has since adopted to avoid towering over her shorter husband.

What they said...
Promising to be in the front row of a forthcoming Bruni concert, Sarkozy said, "We will announce our engagement. You will see, we will do better than Marilyn and Kennedy."

Said Bruni, "Engagement, never! From now on I will only live with a man who gives me a child."

Sarkozy came back, "I have already brought up five. Why not six?"

At one point Sarkozy leant over and whispered in Bruni's ear, "Bet you don't have the nerve right now in front of everyone to kiss me on the mouth." She did not reply.