French President Nicolas Sarkozy married former model Carla Bruni on Saturday at the Elysee Palace, tying the knot less than three months after they reportedly first met.

In a terse¹ statement, the couple said only that they "were married this morning in the presence of their families in the strictest privacy." The official statement followed an announcement of the wedding several hours earlier from the official who had performed the ceremony at the presidential Elysee Palace.

"The bride wore white; she was ravishing, as usual," Francois Lebel, mayor of Paris' eighth arrondissement, or neighborhood, told Europe-1 radio. "The groom² wasn't bad either."

Sarkozy, 53, and Bruni, 40, were married in the presence of about 20 close family and friends, Lebel said. He called the ceremony "a moment of family intimacy³ for the young newlyweds, of great simplicity⁴ and apparently⁵ a lot of affection between the spouses⁶.

"I wished them a lot of happiness," he said.

Under French law, couples must tie the knot before a mayor to make their union official. Sarkozy was not the first French president to marry in office: Gaston Doumergue tied the knot at the Elysee Palace in 1931.

Sarkozy's openness about his private life has surprised many French, accustomed to presidents who keep their love lives under wraps.

At a news conference in January, Sarkozy revealed that the relationship was "serious" and hinted that wedding plans were in the works. But he refused to reveal the date for a wedding, saying only that France might learn about the nuptials⁷ once they had already taken place.

The couple went public with their relationship during a visit to Disneyland Paris, and they carried out their brief but highly publicized courtship in such places as the ruins of Petra, Jordan. The tabloids⁸ even showed the couple at an Egyptian beach resort, Bruni in a tiny black bikini, Sarkozy in orange trunks and Ray-Ban sunglasses in photos.

Sarkozy's approval ratings dropped during their courtship — in part, analysts⁹ say, because many older, more traditional voters were put off by his glitzy, jet-setting style.

The wedding was the third for Sarkozy, who has three children. He ended his 11-year marriage with Cecilia in October last year.

 上周六，法国总统萨科奇与相识不到三个月的前超级模特卡拉•布鲁尼在爱丽舍宫完婚。

总统夫妇在一份简短声明中说，他们“已于今天（周六）上午在家人的见证下秘密完婚”。该正式声明发表几小时前，在爱丽舍宫为总统主持婚礼的一位官员公布了两人举行婚礼的消息。

巴黎第八区区长弗朗西斯•勒贝尔在接受“欧洲第一电台”的采访时说：“新娘身穿洁白婚纱，和平时一样迷人。新郎看起来也不错。”

勒贝尔说，53岁的萨科奇和40岁的布鲁尼在大约20名亲朋好友的见证下完婚。他说结婚仪式“充满了家庭温暖，虽然十分简单，但却饱含了两人的浓情蜜意”。

他说：“愿他们幸福美满。”

根据法国法律，新人举行婚礼必须有市长见证，才可正式结为合法夫妻。萨科奇并不是法国历史上首位在任职期间结婚的总统——1931年，法国前任总统加斯顿•杜梅洛在爱丽舍宫结婚。

在法国，总统的爱情生活一直被视为“不能说的秘密”，而萨科奇总统对于私生活的开放态度则让很多法国人十分吃惊。

在今年1月的一次新闻发布会上，萨科奇透露他与布鲁尼的恋情是“认真的”，并暗示两人正在筹划婚礼。但他拒绝透露婚礼的具体日期，只是说可能在婚礼后才会公布消息。

萨科奇与布鲁尼的恋情在两人一同去巴黎的迪斯尼乐园游玩时被曝光。之后，两人前往约旦的佩特拉古城等地游玩，他们的关系进展神速，并受到广泛关注。法国一些小报甚至曝出两人在埃及海滩度假地的照片，照片中的布鲁尼身着黑色紧身比基尼，萨科奇则穿着橘色泳裤，戴着一副雷朋太阳镜。

萨科奇与布鲁尼交往期间支持率大跌，分析人士认为，其中一部分原因是很多年龄较大、较传统的民众不满萨科奇浮华、不羁的生活方式。

这是萨科奇总统的第三次婚姻。萨科奇有三个孩子，他于去年10月与塞西莉亚结束了维持11年的婚姻。