It's all over the papers in France this morning, and it'll be all over the papers around the world tomorrow, so let me get my oar in quick. Sarkozy's new bint is the flute-voiced, feline ex-model Carla Bruni. The pair were spotted by paparazzi at Disneyland on Saturday. What is interesting is the pictures are not of the furtive, long-range variety, but clearly taken with the couple's knowledge -- and one can only assume, approval. Christophe Barbier, the well-informed editor of l'Express magazine , says that the president has been looking for a way to make the relationship public. Subscribers to Champs-Elysees will be familiar with the 38 year-old Carla Bruni, who we have written about in the past. After some years as a top model, she took to singing and her first album Quelqu'un m'a dit was a massive hit. He second album, which came out in 2007, consisted of bits of English poetry set to music. It was execrable and bombed. So what kind of a gal is la Bruni? She is from an extremely wealthy Italian family, her sister is the actress Valerie Tadeschi-Bruni. She is definitely a "pipol" to use the ghastly neologism. She had a relationship recently with the son-in-law of tele-philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, which says something of the circles she moves in. The default position of Latin Quarter chic chicks is normally stuck on the left. It is interesting that Sarkozy -- for one of them at least -- is no longer beyond the pale.