The pair were filmed talking at the funeral of former French president Jacques Chirac on Monday, with her shocked reaction to his comments giving rise to a great deal of amused speculation online. Bruni - the wife of another former president Nicolas Sarkozy - seems to react with a double take to what Hollande tells her, before her mouth falls open in surprise. - Carla Bruni : pic.twitter.com/m1wuDrHn3z — Mazel Tov (@MazhelTov) October 2, 2019But now Hollande has broken his silence to reveal the real comment - and scold the French people for their dirty minds. He told French TV channel France 5: "What surprised me is that internet users have a lot of imagination, and humour." It seems that their conversation had a more sober tone - Bruni asked whether Chirac's widow Bernadette would be attending and Hollande told her that she was too ill to be at the funeral.

Source: The Local October 02, 2019 11:03 UTC