France, or part of France, greeted the birth of President Nicolas Sarkozy's daughter with an ostentatious yawn yesterday.
The centre-left newspaper Libération ignored the happy event completely.
The upmarket Le Monde, carried only a teasing article on page two, mocking the obsession of the twittosphere and foreign press with Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's pregnancy.
It also led its front page with the story that the world population was now 7 billion, implying, perhaps, that one baby was incidental.
President Sarkozy was equally coy. He spoke of "very great happiness" but turned up at his wife's clinic yesterday morning with a sheaf of documents and departed after 40 minutes for an official engagement in western France.
