François Hollande in love: The former French President has married his partner Julie Gayet. It is the first marriage for the 67-year-old – the actress, on the other hand, has had a divorce.
It all started with morning croissants that the French president secretly brought to his new girlfriend on a scooter. Ex-President François Hollande and actress Julie Gayet have now married. The wedding took place “in a small circle” in Tulle town hall, the local newspaper “La Montagne” reported on Tuesday. It is the first marriage for the 67-year-old.
Hollande and Gayet hid their relationship
Hollande has four adult children with his longtime partner Ségolène Royal, who was a 2007 presidential candidate and later a minister. After that, he was in a relationship with the journalist Valérie Trierweiler, who moved with him to the Élysée Palace after he took office as president and filled the role of the country’s première dame.
When Hollande’s secret love affair with Gayet became known in 2014, the separation from Trierweiler followed. The president’s love life occupied the country’s tabloids for weeks.
It was not the first time that an incumbent president had separated from his partner. Nicolas Sarkozy, who married singer Carla Bruni during his tenure, had previously done so. François Mitterrand had a second family that was supported at state expense but was officially kept silent.
Gayet, who turned 50 shortly before the wedding, has two sons from her first marriage. Among the wedding guests was singer Benjamin Biolay, who starred in a film with Gayet. She is known from productions such as “The Affront”, “Kiss Me Please!” or “Hundred and One Nights”.
François Hollande and Julie Gayet said “yes” to Tulle
This is the first marriage of François Hollande, already the father of 4 children he had with his former partner, Ségolène Royal.
The former President of the Republic, François Hollande, and his companion, the actress Julie Gayet, married discreetly on Saturday at the town hall of Tulle, in Corrèze. They “married in private,” the town hall said when announcing the news to the newspaper La Montagne.
It was the mayor of the Corrèze commune Bernard Combes who carried out the civil union of his friend François Hollande, whom he succeeded as head of the municipality in 2008. At 67, this is the first marriage of François Hollande, father of 4 children he had with his former partner Ségolène Royal.
Benjamin Biolay among the guests
Julie Gayet, divorced in 2006 from Santiago Amigorena, mother of two boys, celebrated her 50th birthday the day before, June 3, in Tulle. According to the daily, singer Benjamin Biolay, who toured in 2021 with Julie Gayet, a feature film by Briviste Sébastien Bailly, was on the guest list.
The couple, whose affair was revealed in 2014 by the magazine Closer, bought a house on the heights of Tulle in 2018. Former deputy of Corrèze then president of the Departmental Council, François Hollande regularly stays with his family in Tulle where he votes . For the past few weeks, he has been crisscrossing the department, in particular to support the dissident socialist candidates for the legislative elections.
