“All that is behind us”: Valérie Trierweiler discusses her reconciliation with François Hollande

This Saturday, November 9, Valérie Trierweiler was present at the Brive-la-Gaillarde Book Fair, a city particularly significant to her, being the stronghold of her ex-partner, ex-president François Hollande. On the occasion of the promotion of her book It's for a friend! - Manual for the use of fifty-somethings, co-written with Constance Vergara, the former First Lady took a moment to discuss her past and her relationship with the former President of the Republic.

This meeting in Brive was not the first for Valérie Trierweiler at this fair, since ten years earlier, she had presented her bestseller Thank you for this moment, a book in which she recounted the behind-the-scenes of her life at the Élysée and the publicized break-up with François Hollande. She confided that she was delighted to be reunited with the Corréziens, whom she found particularly warm. However, the question that arose for some journalists was whether she would meet "a famous Corrézien" in the person of her ex-partner.

She responded with humor and a hint of distance: "I don't know, we'll see if he comes to the stand. I don't know who you're talking about, but I have a little idea anyway." Then, she added a soothing remark about their past relationship: "It's over. All that is behind us."

François Hollande was also present at the stand where he presented his own work. The challenge of governing, published in September. Although the circumstances of their separation were marked by the revelation of his relationship with actress Julie Gayet by the magazine Closer, it seems today that the former lovers are reconciled. Valérie Trierweiler has confirmed, once again, that the rancour is now a thing of the past. In the book The President Who Wanted to Live His Lives, the author Élise Karlin even mentions a public reconciliation, which took place in a restaurant.

This newfound serenity and their presence side by side at the Brive Book Fair testify to a calming, far from the tensions and media dramas of the past. The two former partners, now on good terms, seem to have left behind the trials of the past to concentrate on their respective projects.