I also noted Sarko's adopted the method commonly used in the US now of pretending to scribble down notes (I wish we could have a look at those) while his opponent is talking.
Since there are questions about how he deals with stress - supposedly when he was separated from his wife - he was unable to function. This display of colour on his part should have been remarked upon by some commentators but all were too scared, it seems.
He botched the job.
Re: Royale. Botox or no, I think she is an elegant woman and to my eyes, very pretty.
trying to look all meta instead of relaxing into looking like an idiot, i fink. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~