Lurid claims that French First Lady Valerie Trierweiler cheated on her former husband with Ttwo lovers at once have been heard in a court in Paris today.
The 47-year-old girlfriend of President Francois Hollande is suing two authors who made the allegations for invasion of privacy.
The biography called The Troublemaker claims she was the shared mistress of Mr Hollande, 58, and former conservative minster Patrick Devidjian, now 68, while she was still married to Denis Trierweiler nine years ago.
Both men knew they were ‘sharing’ Ms Trierweiler, but when Mr Devidjian refused her demands to leave his wife, she chose her affair with Mr Hollande over him, before finally divorcing her husband in 2010, the book says.