"The bride wore white; she was ravishing, as usual," Francois Lebel, mayor of Paris' eighth arrondissement, or neighborhood, told Europe-1 radio. "The groom wasn't bad either."
It was a historic occasion, "the first time in the history of the Republic that a president has got married in office," as Lebel said.
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 intimacy for the young newlyweds, of great simplicity and apparently a lot of affection between the spouses.
"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's openness about his private life has surprised many French, accustomed to presidents who keep their love lives under wraps.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/02/france.sarkozy.ap/index.html
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