One Love Story

...When Sarkozy arrived that night for a small dinner at the house of advertising mogul and left-wing political adviser Jacques Séguéla, he was not in a happy mood.(...) Carla, who had asked Séguéla if he knew anyone she could meet who was “free,” found herself seated to the president’s left. She had not voted for him, and at first she did not feel comfortable. “I wasn’t thinking of that,” she tells me. “I was thinking of someone more related to my life.” Séguéla reminded her that she had stipulated only that the person be free.(...) Carla asked Sarkozy for a ride home and gave him her number. “Then I called Jacques and said, ‘What did you do? Why did you introduce me to this man? He is so charming! And now what is going to happen? He didn’t even call me.’ ” Séguéla says he told her, “He only left you five minutes ago!” Carla concludes, “Actually, Nicolas did call a little later that same night.”..(Vanity Fair)