In keeping up with "breaking" and otherwise engaging news on par with this [5], to keep the broader population distract from more critical developments, here is the latest installment of what 99% of the French population will be talking about in the next several days and weeks (instead of the nation's impending triple-dip recession).
#BREAKING [6]: France's Francois Hollande announces split with partner Valerie Trierweiler to @AFP [7]
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) January 25, 2014 [8]
#ALERTE [9] François Hollande annonce "la fin de sa vie commune" avec Valérie Trierweiler. http://t.co/Y3XgyxMeFU [10] pic.twitter.com/T7xiZYml7F [11]
— Le Figaro (@Le_Figaro) January 25, 2014 [12]
In other words, just as expected. For the background on this story, read here [13]