Going on holiday is a risky business when you are president of France. When Nicolas Sarkozy borrowed the luxury yacht of a French billionaire businessman, his image never recovered. A string of flash holidays thereafter didn't help, nor did Paris Match magazine obligingly airbrushing out the love-handles from an unflattering picture of him canoeing in white bermuda shorts in New Hampshire. So when the new president, François Hollande, headed to the beach this month, he continued his political branding exercise as "President Normal". First came orchestrated photographs of the president and his partner ,Valerie T ... (full story)