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First Lady tag is a bit old-school: Valerie Trierweiler

More than three weeks after her partner Francois Hollande tookoffice as France's president, Valerie Trierweiler still doesn't know what she wants to be called.

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In an interview on Thursday, Trierweiler said she feels the term “first lady” is a bit old-school, and she’s been fielding ideas about the right way to refer to her.u00a0She’s also returning to her career in journalism for the first time since Hollande took office. u00a0For Paris Match magazine’s latest edition on Thursday, Trierweiler wrote a review of a biography of former American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. No mistaking the irony: the first line was “Look at that! A journalist first lady isn’t new.”


Modelling herself after Eleanor: For her first assignment as a cultural writer, France’s First Lady chose to write about Eleanor Roosevelt, who was also a working First Lady. File Pic

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