<p>The book titled "Carla, A secret Life", written by investigative journalist Besma Lahouri is said to contradict Bruni-Sarkozy's image as a "shy young woman", reports telegraph.co.uk.<br /><br />It details the affairs that she has had with a long list of celebrity boyfriends including rock stars Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton. <br /><br />According to the book, the French first lady invited three former partners as house guests at the couple's first summer holiday at her two million pounds Riviera villa last year. <br /><br />"Since he married the woman that some called a 'man-eater', (Mr Sarkozy) has had to put up every day with the burdensome tribe. Singers, philosophers, lawyers, bosses, men of the press or politics," wrote Lahouri. <br /><br />Lahouri also claims that the Elysee Palace had conducted a media campaign in 2008 to replace Bruni-Sarkozy's smouldering reputation with one fitting to a demure first lady of France. <br /><br />She claims that Pierre Charon, a civil servant at the Elysee Palace, told her: "So we had to give her a new image. That of a shy young woman, for example ..."</p>
<p>The book titled "Carla, A secret Life", written by investigative journalist Besma Lahouri is said to contradict Bruni-Sarkozy's image as a "shy young woman", reports telegraph.co.uk.<br /><br />It details the affairs that she has had with a long list of celebrity boyfriends including rock stars Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton. <br /><br />According to the book, the French first lady invited three former partners as house guests at the couple's first summer holiday at her two million pounds Riviera villa last year. <br /><br />"Since he married the woman that some called a 'man-eater', (Mr Sarkozy) has had to put up every day with the burdensome tribe. Singers, philosophers, lawyers, bosses, men of the press or politics," wrote Lahouri. <br /><br />Lahouri also claims that the Elysee Palace had conducted a media campaign in 2008 to replace Bruni-Sarkozy's smouldering reputation with one fitting to a demure first lady of France. <br /><br />She claims that Pierre Charon, a civil servant at the Elysee Palace, told her: "So we had to give her a new image. That of a shy young woman, for example ..."</p>