France greets the birth of the First Baby with a yawn

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.

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It's a girl for French President Sarkozy, wife Bruni

Carla Bruni, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has given birth to a girl, a very close family friend told NEWSMEN on Wednesday. 

The mother is doing well, the friend said. Sarkozy, 56, was seen earlier leaving the French capital's La Muette clinic, where Bruni gave birth, according to French media.

It is the first child for the couple, who wed in February 2008. Bruni, 43, announced in early September that she was pregnant and vowed to keep the child out of the spotlight.

Sarkozy divorced his wife of more than 11 years before marrying Bruni. He has three children from that marriage. Bruni, a former supermodel and singer, previously dated singers Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger.

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