法国人具有尊重政治人物个人生活隐私的悠久传统，而法国的舆论也要比美国的更为宽宏大量。 在美国，一个没有结婚的四个孩子的母亲是没有机会被提名成为一个主要政党总统候选人的。
The French have a long tradition of respecting the privacy of their politicians’ personal lives, and French public opinion is more broad-minded than in the United States, where an unwed mother of four would have no chance of being nominated for the presidency by a major party.