France’s Justice Minister Rachida Dati announced her pregnancy in the fall. She is single and says it’s none of anyone’s business who the father is. 

Conventional wisdom has it that the French media and public are much more gracious than the American media and public about leaving their politicians’ private lives out of the public sphere. And perhaps this is true. Exhibit number one is usually Mitterand’s illegitimate daughter Mazarine Pingeot, whose relationship to Mitterand was not revealed by the press until after Mitterand’s death. 

Nonetheless, look at the most popular searches that came up as I typed Dati’s name into teh Google: