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Business,Business News,Business Opportunities After the exotic glamour of Carla Bruni &self drilling screws suppliers8211;  and before her thebuttoned-up correctness of Bernadette Chirac –  she will offera very different version of the presidential consort.  Valerie Trierweiler's origins are not exactly humble,  butcertainly rather more ordinary than the backgrounds of herpredecessors.  In her own words,  she comes from a family of"impoverished bourgeoisie".  Her paternal grandfather owned a bank in the western town ofAngers,  but by the time Valerie Massonneau was born in 1965 theaffluence had long since petered out.

Her father lost his leg at the age of 12 while playing with anunexploded shell in World War II.  They lived in a council house inAngers,  and her mother did part-time work as a cashier at a localskating-rink.  One of six brothers and sisters,  Valerie had ambition and came toParis to study politics.  She started in journalism at thenow-defunct magazine Profession Politique,  and in 1989 was taken onas a political reporter at Paris Match,  where she has been eversince.  Funnily enough one of her early assignments was to interview the38-year-old Segolene Royal,  who in 1992 had just given birth to herfourth child with Francois Hollande.

Segolene Royal was environment minister at the time –  she wasthe first ever French minister to give birth in office –  andspoke to Valerie Trierweiler in her hospital room.  Valerie Trierweiler briefly met Francois Hollande a few yearsearlier,  but their friendship deepened from 2000 when they metoften in the corridors of the National Assembly.  "We both loved politics,  and we both loved to have alaugh," she told one interviewer.  Today Valerie Trierweiler says she has to pinch herself to believethe extraordinary change that suddenly come upon her life.  "It's a bit like I am the subject of one of my owndespatches," she said.

"You know that film in which a person in the audience entersthe screen and becomes part of the film.  It's likethat." Pestered by questions about how she will approach her new life,Valerie Trierweiler has said she needs time to work it out.  The couple has indicated they do not intend to live in the Elyseepalace,  but they have been told by the presidential security peoplethat their current residence in the 15th arrondissement of Paris isunsuitable.  As much as possible,  Valerie Trierweiler wants to maintain herprevious lifestyle.  She has three children by her former husbandDenis Trierweiler,  two of whom are taking the baccalaureate inJune.

She also intends to keep on with her journalism –  though shehas already been obliged to give up writing on politics because ofher relationship with Francois Hollande.  "It is going to be very complicated," said the journalist and writer Philippe Labro,  who gave her a jobas political interviewer on the TV station Direct8.  "She is someone who has always worked,  who's come # fromnowhere,  who's done everything for herself.  I understand herpoint of view,  but it's going to be very hard to keep doingthat and be First Lady." One thing she should understand well,  given her background at ParisMatch,  are the demands of the celebrity press –  though arecent contretemps with her own employer suggests there could stillbe tensions to come.

When the magazine published a large and favorable photo-story abouther on 8 March (International Women's Rights Day),  shetweeted: "Bravo to the sexism of Paris-Match." As for the protocol,  no-one seriously thinks the marital status ofFrancois Hollande and Valerie Trierweiler presents a problem.  Times have changed –  and today being unmarried is as"normal" (Francois Hollande's watchword) as beingmarried.  There just remains the tricky question of what to call her.Conjoint?  Compagne?  Maybe.  Or conceivably Madame Hollande?  Francois Hollande and Valerie Trierweiler have said they will notget married purely for reasons of protocol.