Valérie Trierweiler's scathing bestseller on the former French first lady's relationship with François Hollande is to be turned into a feature film with "new" revelations, it emerged on Monday, reports The Telegraph.
The 49-year old journalist penned Merci Pour Ce Moment ('Thank You for the Moment') after Mr Hollande unceremoniously dumped her last January following revelations that he was having a secret affair with Julie Gayet, an actress.
The kiss-and-tell book has sold 730,000 copies in France and been translated into 11 languages.
Trierweiler is thought to have made around €2 million (£1.6 million) out of the book, whose graphic account of sex, revenge and political intrigue before and during Mr Hollande's presidency, has drawn huge French and international interest.
Now, her controversial memoir is to hit the big screen after the film rights were bought by actress-producer Saïda Jawad, a close friend of Trierweiler. The pair met in 2011, when Mr Hollande won Socialist Party presidential primaries and, according to the producer, have since become "inseparable".
Trierweiler dedicated her book to the producer, who is of Moroccan origin, saying that she was "between a true friend and a sister".
Speaking to Gala, the weekly magazine, Jawad said: "I am not making a polemical film, I just want to recount the fight of a woman in love, even if the story is exceptional as the man being loved is the French president.
"The theme remains universal," she claimed.