For more than six hours the world did not know where the French president was.

So is the next French president likely to bring about much change?

It is the first time a French president has had a child while in office.

Instantly, he says, the former French president changed the subject.

Listening in on people's phone conversations would not be new for a French president.

Bono did not, in fact, talk to the French president until the third and final day of the conference.

Using for example, a virtual version of the French president in a second life universe.

In truth, things couldn't have worked out better for the French president in 2011.

He was the only French president to die of a gunshot wound.

The French president found the issue amusing, appearing to laugh at the question.