Valérie Trierweiler’s explosive memoirs of her relationship with François Hollande may have shot to the top of the French bestseller list, but not all of the country’s bookshops are keen to cash in on its more lurid revelations, reports The Telegraph.
Signs have appeared in some of France's bookshop windows to explain why they would not be selling Merci Pour Ce Moment ['Thanks For This Moment'], despite initial sales of the tell-all memoir topping even those of Fifty Shades of Grey in France.
“We have 11,000 books. We are not here to be the dustbin for Trierweiler and Hollande,” said one. “This bookshop isn't planning on becoming an outlet for Ms Trierweiler’s dirty laundry,” wrote another.
The book has widely been seen as an attack on the French president by his spurned ex-girlfriend, claiming that the Socialist Hollande privately “doesn’t like the poor” and kept Trierweiler on “astronomical” amounts of tranquillisers after their break-up to keep her hidden away in hospital.
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