JOIN USSarkozy's incredible knowledge floors Bruni
“When I met him, walking around the garden in the Palais of the Elysee, he keeps giving me all these flowers’ names. He knows all the Latin names, all these details about tulips and roses,” Bruni told BBC in an interview due to be aired on Tuesday. “I said to myself: ‘My god, I must marry this man, he’s the President and he knows everything about flowers as well. This is incredible,’” she said.
Bruni says her husband is “interested in every type of thing”, including history, geography
and of course politics - but it was his knowledge of gardening that captured her heart.
Media-shy Bruni, 43, is pregnant with her second child and has been rather quiet about it.
Their marriage in 2008 was, for both of them, an adventurous move, she says. “Marrying him is very rock-and-roll for someone like me,” Bruni said. Being able to change your life from one day to another, that’s really rock-and-roll. Most people wouldn’t go for this sort of change.
“Also from his side, it’s very rock-and-roll, you know - after all, I’m a songwriter!”
But, she insists that they have the opposite of a “rock -and-roll” lifestyle.
“I’m very quiet myself and we have a very quiet life. I like peace and solitude and silence. And his day schedule is so frantic that nights, evenings, we keep them for us as much as we can.”
Asked when she stops being France’s first lady, what does she hope to do? “Just going back to touring, you know. Playing guitar and touring is what I miss the most,” Bruni said.
And asked about Sarkozy after the presidency, she said: “He’s going to work until he dies. He’s that type of man. He’s not a depressive type, he’s not a lazy type.”