"The French first lady, the one in a role where wives traditionally ignored and overlooked their husbands’ peccadilloes for the greater gain of keeping their marriages intact and running the Élysée Palace, has fled her gilded perch, acting all-American and brimming over with feelings and feminist impulses." Oh, yeah o New York Times columnist. You thought that US taught France about feminism? It is the other way round, o esteemed columnist.