Story has a number of TRP principles from DHV to competition among females for the alpha (Hollande). EDIT: Link added below.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/346468.php

"[Current girlfriend] is in the hospital now, recovering from grief or something.

This isn't the first Weird French Socialist Girlfriend thing to Hollande's credit. He previously... dated the Socialist politician Segolene Royal, and had four children with her while he was... dating. But anyway, he dumped her like a sack of yesterday's mons junk for Valerie Trierweiler.

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Here's the kicker: His polling is going up... among women. His polls had been in the crapper for years because France is, well, France is France, and the only thing rising faster than its unemployment is its deficit, but now he's arranging secret rendez-vous with much-younger actresses and French women are all like, Oh là là, que chaud!

That proves the premise of 1/3rd of all teenager movies of the 80s: If you can just get one cute chick to pretend to like you, the rest of the girls really will like you."