Prime Minister Francois Fillon on Tuesday dispelled rumours that he resented Sarkozy for hogging the limelight and that they weren’t getting along. But Fillon did it in a parody of the questions and answers about Sarkozy’s romantic entanglements that are dominating French civic life these days.

“How does the executive couple work?” Fillon asked himself. “Very well,” he answered himself. “Are you a happy Prime Minister?” he continued. “Yes, I am... when I’m with you.”

Just about everyone else is chatting up their relationship with the President of France. Already three books about his 11-year marriage to his ex- have been published. Cecilia by journalist Anna Bitton came out this week and is already a bestseller. In it, the former first lady is quoted as describing Sarkozy as “out of control” since the divorce and leaping “on girls whose names he can’t even remember”.

Meanwhile, Sarkozy and his presumptive bride appear to have moved on.

La Repubblica is speculating that the couple will honeymoon in San Vito di Negrar near Verona, hometown of Romeo and Juliet. A booking reportedly was made there under Bruni’s name.

Chatting in Doha on Monday night with French journalists,Sarkozy was reported to have affected annoyance describing a recent evening out with Bruni in Paris. By the time they left a restaurant, some 300 people were waiting outside.

Apparently the point is that the public can’t get enough. Newsstands are filled with magazines carrying the new presidential couple on the cover and the Internet is agog, rather, ablog over the President’s social life.