François Hollande and Julie Gayet "got married in private", said the town hall announcing the news to the newspaper La Montagne.

It was the mayor of the Corrèze commune Bernard Combes who carried out the civil union of his friend François Hollande, whom he succeeded as head of the municipality in 2008.

At 67, this is the first marriage of François Hollande, father of 4 children he had with his former partner Ségolène Royal.

Julie Gayet, divorced in 2006 from Santiago Amigorena, mother of two boys, celebrated her 50th birthday the day before, June 3, in Tulle.

According to the daily, singer Benjamin Biolay, who toured in 2021 with Julie Gayet, a feature film by Briviste Sébastien Bailly, was on the guest list.

The couple, whose affair was revealed in 2014 by the magazine Closer, bought a house on the heights of Tulle in 2018. Former deputy of Corrèze then president of the Departmental Council, François Hollande regularly stays with his family in Tulle where he votes .

For the past few weeks, he has been crisscrossing the department, in particular to support the dissident socialist candidates for the legislative elections.

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